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AMD Ryzen 5 5500: specs and benchmarks
Price now
137$
Games supported
100%
- Interface
- Core clock speed
- Max video memory
- Memory type
- Memory clock speed
- Maximum resolution
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.
General info
Ryzen 5 5500 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 418 | |
| Place by popularity | 14 | |
| Value for money | 62.49 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Architecture codename | Cezanne (2021−2022) | |
| Release date | 4 April 2022 (1 year old) | |
| Current price | $137 | of 15854 (Xeon Platinum 8276L) |
Value for money
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 | 6 (Hexa-Core) | |
| Threads | 12 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.6 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 4.2 GHz | of 6 (Core i9-13900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64K (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 512K (per core) | of 36864 (Apple M2 Max) |
| L3 cache | 16 MB | of 768 (EPYC 7373X) |
| Chip lithography | 7 nm | of 4 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
| Die size | 180 mm2 | |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | 95 °C | of 105 (Core i7-5950HQ) |
| Number of transistors | 10,700 million | of 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 configuration | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | AM4 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 65 Watt | of 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 types | DDR4-3200 | of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 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.
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%
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%
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%
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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.
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.
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Ryzen 5 5500, according to our PC configuration statistics.
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6.2%
4.2%
3.8%
3.1%
3.1%
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.
1.7% (288/17081)
0.06% (10/17081)
0.1% (21/17081)
0.02% (3/17081)
0.4% (61/17081)
0.1% (19/17081)
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0.1% (20/17081)
0.04% (6/17081)
0.07% (12/17081)
