[Comparison] AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Ryzen 5 4500U – the new 5500U shows improvements in every category except one

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Vanaf: Severin Kolakov 02 March 2021 / 04:16 0

Not long ago we were wondering about the Ryzen 5000-series processors and how good they would be. Now we have the new U-series chips here and we can’t wait to show you how well they perform. For today we have one of the new mid-range chips, the Ryzen 5 5500U, and the best way to see how good it is is to compare it to its predecessor, the Ryzen 5 4500U.

You should expect more comparisons of the new Ryzen 5 5500U, but for the first one, we believe that the Ryzen 5 4500U was the perfect opponent.

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You can find more information about both CPUs here: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U / AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

Specs table

	AMD Ryzen 5 5500U	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
Architecture	Zen 2	Zen 2
Cores / Threads	6/12	6/6
Clock Speeds – Base/Boost	2.10 – 4.00GHz	2.30 – 4.00GHz
Cache	11MB	8MB
Lithography	7nm	7nm
TDP	15W	15W
Memory type	DDR4 – 3200MHz, LPDDR4x – 4266MHz	DDR4-3200MHz, LPDDR4x-4267MHz
Integrated GPU	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Ryzen 4000/5000, 15W)	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000, 15W)

CPU benchmarks

In the 3D Rendering benchmark with Cinebench 20, the Ryzen 5 5500U was just slightly faster, managing to score 3% higher. The same story repeated itself in the Adobe Photoshop benchmark is where Ryzen 5 5500U was faster once again and completed the test with a lead of around 0.4 seconds, which isn’t much but it’s there.

3D Rendering

De resultaten zijn afkomstig van de Cinebench R23 CPU-test (hoe hoger de score, hoe beter)

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U ASUS ZenBook 13 OLED UM325

Controleer de prijs

6436

GPU benchmarks

Moving over to the GPU side, here the Ryzen 5 5500U and Ryzen 5 4500U are powered by the RX Vega 7 and RX Vega 6, respectively. As you can guess by the name, the RX Vega 7, which has more cores and higher clock speed, performed 13% better in 3DMark Fire Strike, 55% better in Unigine Heaven 4.0, and 9% better in Unigine Superposition.

3DMark Time Spy (G)

De resultaten zijn van 3DMark Time Spy (Graphics). Hoger is beter.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (R4000/5000, 15W) ASUS ZenBook 13 OLED UM325

Controleer de prijs

1034

3DMark Fire Strike (G)

De resultaten zijn van de 3DMark Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (hoe hoger de score, hoe beter)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (R4000/5000, 15W) ASUS ZenBook 13 OLED UM325

Controleer de prijs

3457

Unigine Superposition

De resultaten zijn van de Unigine Superposition benchmark (hoe hoger de score, hoe beter)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (R4000/5000, 15W) ASUS ZenBook 13 OLED UM325

Controleer de prijs

601

Conclusion

In terms of computational power, the Ryzen 5500U didn’t show much in the 3D Rendering benchmarks, managing to win against its predecessor, albeit by performing just 3% better. In Photoshop we saw similar results as the Ryzen 5 5500U finished the benchmark faster and had a lead of around 0.4 seconds. As for the graphics part of this comparison, the Radeon RX Vega 7 that was inside the Ryzen 5 5500U was significantly quicker with a lead of 13%, 55%, and 9% in 3DMark Fire Strike, Unigine Heaven 4.0, and Unigine Superposition, respectively.