AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 8 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 235.99
$ 74.99
$ 161.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5786 points
5931 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7050 points
7969 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5345 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
5267 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5212 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
5102 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

140.77 points
141.88 points
0.79% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5474 points
7589 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1162 points
1833 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5997 points
7653 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1191 points
1872 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.2 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
65 W
176% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

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
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

269th of 1,089
256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Ryzen 5 5500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 Threadripper 1900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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