AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 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

5427 points
5702 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7307 points
7868 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4865 points
4995 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4745 points
4828 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.68 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
144.95 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.20 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
96 MiB
499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

313th of 1,118
289th of 1,118

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4

Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition vs Ryzen 5 5500X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D is faster than the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500X3D that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition.

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 7 6800HS Creator Edition has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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