Ryzen 5 4500: specs and benchmarks

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Ryzen 5 4500
2022
6 cores / 12 threads, 65 Watt
10.15

Ryzen 5 4500 provides acceptable benchmark performance at 10.15% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started Ryzen 5 4500 sales 4 April 2022. This is a Renoir architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, and is based on 7 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 4100 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM4 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt and a maximum temperature of 95 °C. It supports DDR4-3200 memory.

Primary details

Ryzen 5 4500 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking760
Place by popularity50
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency14.78of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameRenoir (2020−2023)
Release date4 April 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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 cores6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads12
Base clock speed3.6 GHzof 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed4.1 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache64K (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache512K (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache8 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography7 nmof 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K)
Die size156 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)95 °Cof 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ)
Number of transistors9,800 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+
Unlocked multiplier+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 4500 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 configuration1of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
SocketAM4
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 4500. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI+
AVX+
Precision Boost 2+

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 4500's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-3200

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (EPYC 9655P)
PCI Express lanes16of 128 (EPYC 9655P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 5 4500. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark 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.

Ryzen 5 4500 10.15

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.

Ryzen 5 4500 16123

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.

Ryzen 5 4500 1560

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.

Ryzen 5 4500 6210

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Ryzen 5 4500's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 5 4500 is Core i5-12400T, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to Ryzen 5 4500:

Core i7-10700 101.58
Ryzen 5 4500 100

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Ryzen 5 4500, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 5 4500 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 28455 configurations using Ryzen 5 4500 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
1% (278/28455)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.03% (9/28455)
RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
0.01% (3/28455)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.09% (25/28455)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.04% (10/28455)
RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
0.05% (15/28455)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.09% (25/28455)
RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7900 XT
0.01% (4/28455)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.01% (4/28455)

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