Ryzen 5 4500: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen 5 4500 provides acceptable benchmark performance at 10.02% of a leader's which is a 192-core EPYC 9965.
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Summary
AMD started Ryzen 5 4500 sales 4 April 2022 at a recommended price of $129. 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 ranking | 870 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 50.83 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Power efficiency | 14.86 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Designer | AMD | |
| Manufacturer | TSMC | |
| Architecture codename | Renoir (2020−2023) | |
| Release date | 4 April 2022 (3 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $129 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Performance to price scatter graph
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 cores | 6 (Hexa-Core) | |
| Threads | 12 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.6 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 4.1 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 512 KB (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 8 MB (shared) | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 7 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 156 mm2 | |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | 95 °C | of 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ) |
| Number of transistors | 9,800 million | of 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 configuration | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | AM4 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 65 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
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 types | DDR4-3200 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 5 4500.
| Integrated graphics card | N/A |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K) |
| PCI Express lanes | 16 | of 128 (EPYC 7551P) |
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.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
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.
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.
Send your test results of Ryzen 5 4500.
Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 5 4500 is Core i7-10700, which is faster by 1% and higher by 6 positions in our ranking.
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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 35292 configurations using Ryzen 5 4500 in our database.
