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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
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CPU comparisonAMD Ryzen 5 5500U or AMD Ryzen 5 4500U - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.
The AMD Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores with 12 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.00 GHz. Up to 32 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 5500U was released in Q1/2021. The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U has 6 cores with 6 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.00 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U was released in Q1/2020. |
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| AMD Ryzen 5 (87) | Family | AMD Ryzen 5 (87) |
| AMD Ryzen 5000U (Lucienne) (3) | CPU group | AMD Ryzen 4000U (11) |
| 4 | Generation | 3 |
| Lucienne (Zen 2) | Architecture | Renoir (Zen 2) |
| Notebook | Segment | Notebook |
| -- | Predecessor | -- |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5625U | Successor | -- |
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CPU Cores and Base FrequencyThe AMD Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 CPU cores and can calculate 12 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U is 2.10 GHz (4.00 GHz) while the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U has 6 CPU cores and 6 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U is at 2.30 GHz (4.00 GHz). |
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| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Characteristic | AMD Ryzen 5 4500U |
| 6 | Cores | 6 |
| 12 | Threads | 6 |
| normal | Core architecture | normal |
| Yes | Hyperthreading | No |
| No | Overclocking ? | No |
| 2.10 GHz | Frequency | 2.30 GHz |
| 4.00 GHz | Turbo Frequency (1 Core) | 4.00 GHz |
| 3.40 GHz | Turbo Frequency (All Cores) | 3.80 GHz |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)The AMD Ryzen 5 5500U or AMD Ryzen 5 4500U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die. |
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| AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir) | GPU | AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Renoir) |
| 0.40 GHz | GPU frequency | 0.40 GHz |
| 1.80 GHz | GPU (Turbo) | 1.50 GHz |
| 9 | GPU Generation | 9 |
| 7 nm | Technology | 7 nm |
| 3 | Max. displays | 3 |
| 7 | Compute units | 6 |
| 448 | Shader | 384 |
| No | Hardware Raytracing | No |
| No | Frame Generation | No |
| 2 GB | Max. GPU Memory | 2 GB |
| 12 | DirectX Version | 12 |
Hardware codec supportA photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos. |
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| AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir) | GPU | AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Renoir) |
| Decode / Encode | Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | Decode / Encode |
| Decode / Encode | Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | Decode / Encode |
| Decode / Encode | Codec h264 | Decode / Encode |
| Decode / Encode | Codec VP9 | Decode / Encode |
| Decode / Encode | Codec VP8 | Decode / Encode |
| No | Codec AV1 | No |
| Decode / Encode | Codec AVC | Decode / Encode |
| Decode | Codec VC-1 | Decode |
| Decode / Encode | Codec JPEG | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe AMD Ryzen 5 5500U can use up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 51.2 GB/s. The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 51.2 GB/s. |
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| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Characteristic | AMD Ryzen 5 4500U |
| LPDDR4-4266, DDR4-3200 | Memory | LPDDR4-4266, DDR4-3200 |
| 32 GB | Max. Memory | 64 GB |
| 2 (Dual Channel) | Memory channels | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| 51.2 GB/s | Max. Bandwidth | 51.2 GB/s |
| Yes | ECC | Yes |
| -- | L2 Cache | -- |
| 8.00 MB | L3 Cache | 8.00 MB |
| 3.0 | PCIe version | 3.0 |
| 12 | PCIe lanes | 12 |
| 11.8 GB/s | PCIe Bandwidth | 11.8 GB/s |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U is 15 W, while the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U has a TDP of 15 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. |
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| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Characteristic | AMD Ryzen 5 4500U |
| 15 W | TDP (PL1 / PBP) | 15 W |
| -- | TDP (PL2) | -- |
| 25 W | TDP up | 25 W |
| 10 W | TDP down | 10 W |
| 105 °C | Tjunction max. | 105 °C |
Technical detailsThe AMD Ryzen 5 5500U is manufactured in 7 nm and has 8.00 MB cache. The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U is manufactured in 7 nm and has a 8.00 MB cache. |
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| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Characteristic | AMD Ryzen 5 4500U |
| 7 nm | Technology | 7 nm |
| Chiplet | Chip design | Chiplet |
| x86-64 (64 bit) | Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 | ISA extensions | SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 |
| FP6 | Socket | FP6 |
| AMD-V, SVM | Virtualization | AMD-V, SVM |
| Yes | AES-NI | Yes |
| Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux | Operating systems | Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux |
| Q1/2021 | Release date | Q1/2020 |
| -- | Release price | -- |
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Average performance in benchmarks
⌀ Single core performance in 5 CPU benchmarks
⌀ Multi core performance in 7 CPU benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a partial load benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. In the single-core test, only the fastest CPU core is measured. The test run simulates the performance in practice.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
The practical Geekbench 6 multi-core benchmark tests the system's performance under partial load. The processor's maximum power consumption is far from being used up.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 3.80 GHz |
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir) @ 1.80 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Renoir) @ 1.50 GHz |
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Blender 3.1 Benchmark
In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 3.80 GHz |
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CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)
The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 4.00 GHz |
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CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)
The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 2.10 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 2.30 GHz |
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Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)
The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)
The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
6C 12T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C 6T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Devices using this processor |
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| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | AMD Ryzen 5 4500U |
| Unknown | Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Acer Swift 3 |
News and articles for the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U and the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
Comparison of the two processors
The AMD Ryzen 5 5500U is the direct successor to the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U. The improvements of the new mobile processor can be seen in detail in our CPU comparison. But first there is a small disappointment: AMD still relies on the Zen 2 CPU cores already used in the predecessor for the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U. Although the new "Lucienne" APU design brings a few minor improvements compared to the "Renoir" design of the predecessor, it is not the big hit.The AMD Ryzen 5 5500U has a base clock rate of 2.1 GHz that is slightly lower than the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U. While the 1-core Turbo is still 4.0 GHz, the newer processor can only clock all CPU cores with 3.4 GHz instead of the 3.8 GHz of the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U.
Nevertheless, the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U is around 5 percent (single-core load) or even 25 percent faster than the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U in the end. This is because AMD now allows simultaneous multi-threading for the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U. This means that the 6 CPU cores of the mobile processor can now process 12 threads in parallel. This is particularly helpful with computationally intensive applications.
Both processors can address a maximum of 32 GB RAM of the type DDR4-3200 or LPDDR4-4266. Two memory channels are available for this, which the system also uses in the best case. The AMD Ryzen 5 5500U uses the AMD Radeon 7 Graphics (Renoir) of the previous version, but in a larger configuration. This increases the graphics performance compared to the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U by at least 30 percent.
The AMD Radeon 7 Graphics (Renoir) clocks at 1.8 GHz, has 7 execution units and 448 shaders. The new and free video codec AV1 is unfortunately not yet supported.
Both processors are manufactured in 7 nm and fit into the FP6 socket. The TDP is 15 watts.
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