amd ryzen 5 5500u vs amd ryzen 5 3400g

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U (Laptop) 6-cores against AMD Ryzen 5 3400G (Desktop) 4-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between AMD Ryzen 5 5500U and AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • Newer released 2 years later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Consumes up to 62% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 3400G – 25 vs 65 Watt
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 12
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
  • Newer released 2019 years later
  • 5% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.2 GHz vs 4 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
7134
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
13303
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
4961

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 5 5500u and ryzen 5 3400g

General

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Vendor AMD AMD
Released January 7 2021 June 12 2019
Type Laptop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Lucienne U Picasso
Socket FP6 AM4
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 AMD Radeon RX Vega 11

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Cores 6 4
Threads 12 8
Base Frequency 2.1 GHz 3.7 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4 GHz 4.2 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 128K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 8 MB (shared) 4 MB (shared)

Power

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Fabrication process 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 W 65 W
Max. temperature 105°C °C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Memory types DDR4-4266 DDR4-2933
Memory Size 64 GB 64 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 46.933 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 AMD Radeon RX Vega 11
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Shading Units 448 704
TMUs 28 44
ROPs 7 8
TGP 0 W 65 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS
1.746 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
Official site AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page AMD Ryzen 5 3400G official page
PCI Express Version 3 3
PCI Express Lanes 20

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G or AMD Ryzen 5 5500U?