AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Ryzen 5 5500GT comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 5500GT also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.