amd ryzen 5 5500u vs amd ryzen 5 3450u

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U (Laptop) 6-cores against AMD Ryzen 5 3450U (Laptop) 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 3450U
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • Newer released 1 years later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 12% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4 GHz vs 3.5 GHz)
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 12
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 3450U
  • Newer released 2018 years later
  • Consumes up to 40% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U – 15 vs 25 Watt

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
7134
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
2462
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 3450u

General

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 3450U
Vendor AMD AMD
Released January 7 2021 May 1 2020
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Lucienne U Zen+
Socket FP6 AM4
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 3450U
Cores 6 4
Threads 12 8
Base Frequency 2.1 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4 GHz 3.5 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 384 KB
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 2 MB
L3 Cache 8 MB (shared) 4 MB

Power

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 3450U
Fabrication process 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 W 15 W
Max. temperature 105°C °C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 3450U
Memory types DDR4-4266
Memory Size 64 GB GB
Max. Memory Channels
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 3450U
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Shading Units 448 512
TMUs 28 32
ROPs 7 8
TGP 0 W 65 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS
1.13 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 3450U
Official site AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page AMD Ryzen 5 3450U official page
PCI Express Version 3
PCI Express Lanes

Comments

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