Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Ryzen 5 5500 benchmarks
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HX 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, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 9 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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