AMD Ryzen 5 5560U vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4837 points
4985 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6909 points
5% slightly better gaming score
6530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4216 points
4496 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4083 points
4354 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

103.14 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
87.35 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
Identical
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

361st of 1,089
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 5 5560U vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition performs better than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5560U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5560U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5560U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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