AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs AMD Ryzen Z2 Go

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Ryzen Z2 Go specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U is faster than the Ryzen Z2 Go. Despite this, the Ryzen Z2 Go has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen Z2 Go has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z2 Go. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Z2 Go has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. Also, the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen Z2 Go CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Z2 Go. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.