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AMD Ryzen 5 1500X: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started AMD Ryzen 5 1500X sales 16 March 2017 at a recommended price of $189. This is Zen architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 3500 MHz - 3700 MHz (1 core)3700 MHz (2 cores)3600 MHz (3 cores)3600 MHz (4 cores) and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM4 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR4 Dual-channel memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 10.34 percent of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 7763.

General info

Of Ryzen 5 1500X processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in our rating

519

Value for money (0-100)

7.25

Market segment

Desktop processor

Series

AMD Ryzen 5

Architecture codename

Zen

Launch date

16 March 2017 (4 years ago)

Launch price (MSRP)

$189

of 71 (Athlon II X4 740)

Price now

$183 (1x MSRP)

of 14999 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technical specs

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores

4 (Quad-Core)

Threads

Base clock speed

3.5 GHz

of 4.7 (FX-9590)

Boost clock speed

3.5 GHz

of 5.3 (Core i9-10900KF)

Bus support

4 × 8 GT/s

L1 cache

384 KB

of 896 (Atom C3950)

L2 cache

2 MB

of 12 (Core 2 Quad Q9550)

L3 cache

16 MB (shared)

of 32 (Ryzen Threadripper 1998)

Chip lithography

14 nm

of 5 (Apple M1)

Die size

213 mm²

Number of transistors

4800 Million

of 16000 (Apple M1)

64 bit support

Unlocked multiplier

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 1500X compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration

1 (Uniprocessor)

of 8 (Opteron 842)

Socket

AM4

Thermal design power (TDP)

65 Watt

of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 1500X. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions

XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT

AES-NI

AVX

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 1500X's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR4 Dual-channel

of 4266 (Ryzen 9 4900H)

Maximum memory size

64 GB

of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)

Max memory channels

of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Maximum memory bandwidth

42.671 GB/s

of 281.6 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

ECC memory support

Graphics specifications

General parameters of GPU integrated into Ryzen 5 1500X.

Integrated graphics card

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version

3.0

PCI Express lanes

of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 5 1500X. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

10.34

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

4573

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

7403

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

14463

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

4149

Geekbench 2

13198

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

4.9

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.

177

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

3910

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core (sometimes called Multi-Thread) is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

805

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

154

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

1.73

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

20186

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

9071

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Ryzen 5 1500X is for a gaming PC, compared with system requirements of some popular titles. Remember that sometimes official hardware requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.

This processor matches 100% minimum and 98% recommended requirements of all games known to us.

Minimum

100%

Recommended

98%

Minimum

100%

Recommended

98%

Relative perfomance

Overall Ryzen 5 1500X performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.

100 %

Ryzen 5 1500X

Intel equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Ryzen 5 1500X from Intel is Core i3-10105F, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 4 positions in our rating.