AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Celeron N4500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Celeron N Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Celeron N4500

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 78.90 significantly less expensive

$ 303.15

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6413 points

905% significantly better overall score

638 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8715 points

534% significantly better gaming score

1374 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5671 points

1122% significantly better multitasking score

464 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5491 points

1128% significantly better heavy workload score

447 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

2167% significantly higher Blender score

6.84 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11838 points

1569% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

709 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

1120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

710 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

385% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

435 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

499% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

236% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

6 W

983% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

1,050th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Celeron N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4 LPDDR4x

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Celeron N4500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600X performs better than the Celeron N4500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more cores than the Celeron N4500. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Celeron N4500. It also has more threads than the Celeron N4500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N4500. The Celeron N4500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.