AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 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

4180 points
5930 points
41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points
7967 points
40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points
5266 points
41% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points
5101 points
41% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points
141.88 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points
7589 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points
1833 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points
7653 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points
1872 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.3 GHz
3.6 GHz
56% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
Identical
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
Identical
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

422nd of 1,089
256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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