Ryzen 5 5500U vs Pentium G5600

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium G5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated898
Place by popularitynot in top-10014
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000)
Power efficiencyno data51.69
Architecture codenameCoffee Lake (2017−2019)Lucienne-U (Zen 2) (2021)
Release dateno data12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium G5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threadsno data12
Base clock speedno data2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.9 GHz4 GHz
Multiplierno data21
L1 cache64 KB (per core)384 KB
L2 cache256 KB (per core)3 MB
L3 cache6144 KB (shared)8 MB (shared)
Chip lithography14 nm7 nm
Die sizeno data156 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)72 °Cno data
Number of transistorsno data9,800 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium G5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11
Socket1151FP6
Power consumption (TDP)51 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium G5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI++
FMA-+
AVX++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
TSX+-

Security technologies

Pentium G5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium G5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-d+no data
VT-x+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium G5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium G5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Pentium G5600 847
Ryzen 5 5500U 1286
+51.8%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Pentium G5600 1846
Ryzen 5 5500U 4529
+145%

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 2 6
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 51 Watt 15 Watt

Ryzen 5 5500U has 200% more physical cores, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 240% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Pentium G5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Pentium G5600 is a desktop processor while Ryzen 5 5500U is a notebook one.


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