AMD Ryzen 5 5500: specs and benchmarks

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Ryzen 5 5500
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
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Year of release 2022
Performance 15.57

Summary

AMD started Ryzen 5 5500 sales 4 April 2022. This is a Cezanne 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 4200 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.

It provides poor benchmark performance at

15.57%

of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.

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General info

Ryzen 5 5500 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking418
Place by popularity14
Value for money62.49
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameCezanne (2021−2022)
Release date4 April 2022 (1 year old)
Current price$137 of 15854 (Xeon Platinum 8276L)
Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

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 cores6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads12
Base clock speed3.6 GHzof 4.7 (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed4.2 GHzof 6 (Core i9-13900KS)
L1 cache64K (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache512K (per core)of 36864 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache16 MBof 768 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography7 nmof 4 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)
Die size180 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)95 °Cof 105 (Core i7-5950HQ)
Number of transistors10,700 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+
Unlocked multiplier+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 5500 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 (Opteron 842)
SocketAM4
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

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

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 5500's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-3200of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5 (Core i9-12900K)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 5 5500. 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 5500 15.57

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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Ryzen 5 5500 19620

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.

Benchmark coverage: 37%

Ryzen 5 5500 1833

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.

Benchmark coverage: 37%

Ryzen 5 5500 7581

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Ryzen 5 5500 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.


Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 5 5500 is Core i9-9900KS, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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Here are some closest Intel rivals to Ryzen 5 5500:

Similar processors

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

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Ryzen 5 5500, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 5 5500 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 17081 configurations based on Ryzen 5 5500 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
1.7% (288/17081)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.06% (10/17081)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.1% (21/17081)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.02% (3/17081)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.4% (61/17081)
RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7900 XT
0.1% (19/17081)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.1% (24/17081)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (20/17081)
RX 6900 XT Radeon RX 6900 XT
0.04% (6/17081)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.07% (12/17081)

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