AMD just added seven new Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) processors to its Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) line. If some leaked benchmarks are any indication, the Ryzen 5 5500, which is part of the latest upgrades, might become one of the top CPUs for gaming.
Hardware detective Benchleaks has discovered a Ryzen 5 5500 Geekbench 5 submission that provides us a taste of the Ryzen chip’s single-threaded and multi-threaded performance. The Ryzen 5 5500 was tested on the MSI MEG X570 Godlike, which is the same motherboard we utilised for our testbed.
The Ryzen 5 5600G outperformed the Ryzen 5 5500 by 4.4 percent in single-threaded performance. However, the Ryzen 5 5600G was only 1.3 percent faster than the Ryzen 5 5500 in multi-threaded performance.
The Ryzen 5 5600X outperformed the Ryzen 5 5500 by 12.3% when it came to single-threaded performance. The multi-threaded margin was approximately 9.3%.
Because the Core i5-12400 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600X, the Ryzen 5 5500 isn’t a match for the hexa-core Alder Lake processor. Furthermore, the Core i5-12400 outperformed the Ryzen 5 5500 by 20 percent and 17.2 percent in single and multi-threaded performance, respectively.
The Ryzen 5 5600 costs $199, while the Ryzen 5 5500 costs $159. The Ryzen 5 5600X now costs $224.99 thanks to recent price reductions. To decide whether the Ryzen 5 5500 is the new affordable processor for consumers, more than a single Geekbench result will be required. There’s also the Core i5-12400F from Intel, which costs $179.99, so there’s a lot of competition in this price range.
The Ryzen 5 5500 features AMD’s acclaimed Zen 3 cores and a six-core, 12-thread design. It’s a recipe that has worked for the chipmaker, so changing it now makes little sense.
The core configuration is comparable to that of AMD’s Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 5 5600 processors. There are, however, some significant variances between the three Ryzen 5 SKUs. The L3 cache on the Ryzen 5 5500 is just 16MB, whereas the L3 cache on the Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 5 5600 has 32MB. As a result, it’s safe to presume that the Ryzen 5 5500, like the Ryzen 5 5600G APU, has a monolithic die. The Ryzen 5 5500 silicon could be defective dies that don’t qualify for the Ryzen 5 5600G or dies with the iGPU disabled by AMD.
Despite the fact that AMD’s Ryzen 5 processors have a 65W TDP, the clock rates vary from model to model. The Ryzen 5 5500 features a base frequency of 3.6 GHz and a peak clock of 4.2 GHz. In comparison to the Ryzen 5 5600X, the base clock is 100 MHz lower and the boost clock is 400 MHz lower. When comparing the Ryzen 5 5500 to the Ryzen 5 5600G, the base and boost clock frequencies are 300 and 200 MHz lower, respectively.
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