amd ryzen 5 5500u vs intel celeron n4020

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U (Laptop) 6-cores against Intel Celeron N4020 (Laptop) 2-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 Intel Celeron N4020
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • Newer released 2 years later
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 30% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4 GHz vs 2.8 GHz)
  • Newer PCI Express version – 3
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR4-4266 RAM
Advantages of Intel Celeron N4020
  • Newer released 2019 years later
  • Consumes up to 76% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U – 6 vs 25 Watt

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
2462
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
13303
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 5 5500u and celeron n4020

General

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Celeron N4020
Vendor AMD Intel
Released January 7 2021 November 4 2019
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Lucienne U Gemini Lake
Socket FP6 FCBGA1090
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel UHD Graphics 600

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Celeron N4020
Cores 6 2
Threads 12 2
Base Frequency 2.1 GHz 1.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4 GHz 2.8 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 4 MB
L3 Cache 8 MB (shared) 4 MB

Power

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Celeron N4020
Fabrication process 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 W 6 W
Max. temperature 105°C 105°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Celeron N4020
Memory types DDR4-4266 DDR4, DDR4
Memory Size 64 GB 8 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Celeron N4020
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel UHD Graphics 600
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 200 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 650 MHz
Shading Units 448 96
TMUs 28 12
ROPs 7 2
Execution Units 12
TGP 0 W 5 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS
0.14 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Celeron N4020
Official site AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page Intel Celeron N4020 official page
PCI Express Version 3 2
PCI Express Lanes 6

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Celeron N4020 or AMD Ryzen 5 5500U?