AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Ryzen 3 5300U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.1 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with 6-cores against the 2.6 GHz Ryzen 3 5300U with 4-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating

Key Differences

What are the key differences between 5300U and 5500U
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • Has 4096 KB larger L3 cache size
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • 5% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4 GHz vs 3.8 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench R23

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
7116

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
5461
File compression 394.6 MB/sec 361.9 MB/sec
Clang compilation 46 Klines/sec 29.2 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 98.2 pages/sec 86.3 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 150.4 Mpixels/sec 130.5 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 132 pages/sec 122.5 pages/sec
Background blur 28.2 images/sec 25.8 images/sec
Photo processing 42.3 images/sec 42.6 images/sec
Ray tracing 11.2 Mpixels/sec 7.46 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2]

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
13098
Integer math 46.2 GOps/sec 30.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 26.6 GOps/sec 17.9 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 26M Primes/sec 19M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 19.5M Strings/sec 14.2M Strings/sec
Data encryption 10.7 GBytes/sec 8.1 GBytes/sec
Data compression 178.2 MBytes/sec 133.9 MBytes/sec
Physics 539 Frames/sec 423 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 11B Matrices/sec 8.5B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4]
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Specifications

Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U and Ryzen 3 5300U

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Released January 12, 2021 January 12, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Zen 2 (Lucienne) Zen 2 (Lucienne)
Integrated GPU Radeon RX Vega 7 Radeon RX Vega 6

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 4
P-Threads 12 8
Base Frequency (P) 2.1 GHz 2.6 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4 GHz 3.8 GHz
Total
Total Cores 6 4
Total Threads 12 8
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 21x 26x
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 8MB (shared) 4MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication process 7 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 10-25 W (configurable) 10-25 W (configurable)
Socket FP6 FP6
Peak temperature 105°C 105°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Radeon RX Vega 7 Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz -
GPU Boost Clock 1800 MHz 1500 MHz
Shading Units 448 384
TMUs 28 24
ROPs 7 8
TGP 10-45 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory types - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Memory Size 32 GB 32 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official site AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page AMD Ryzen 3 5300U official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 12 12

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Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 3 5300U or Ryzen 5 5500U?
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