AMD Ryzen 5 7430U vs Ryzen 5 5500U

43 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 5 7430U
VS
38 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

We compared two 6-core laptop CPUs: the 2.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 7430U against the 2.1 GHz Ryzen 5 5500U. 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
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 5500U and 7430U
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 7430U
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • Newer - released 2 years later
  • 22% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 1865 vs 1526 points
  • 7% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.3 GHz vs 4 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
1865
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 606.2 MB/sec 504.2 MB/sec
Clang compilation 51.2 Klines/sec 32.5 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 106.5 pages/sec 103.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 177.4 Mpixels/sec 151.5 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 189.7 pages/sec 124.6 pages/sec
Background blur 31 images/sec 27.2 images/sec
Photo processing 44.4 images/sec 49.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 12.8 Mpixels/sec 8.97 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 599 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
2897
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
15163
Integer math 55.2 GOps/sec 44.4 GOps/sec
Floating point math 30.2 GOps/sec 25.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 47M Primes/sec 26M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 18.8M Strings/sec 18.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 11.4 GBytes/sec 10.2 GBytes/sec
Data compression 179.8 MBytes/sec 171.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 714 Frames/sec 526 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 11.8B Matrices/sec 10.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 2481 & 6029 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
91.95

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 29.5 PPW 16.2 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 437.2 PPW 240.2 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1010.9 PPW 504.4 PPW
Blender / Watt 5.8 PPW 3.68 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
AMD Ryzen 5 7430U
No benchmark results yet
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-11 (Akhil)Cinebench 202468 / 404
πŸ“˜ 2025-06-06 (DON'T_SYBAU ❀️)GeekBench1515 / 6409
πŸ“˜ 2025-06-04 (Micro_review)GeekBench1526 / 6005
πŸ“˜ 2025-05-14 (Josh Passed)Cinebench 202469 / 315
πŸ“˜ 2024-05-30 (Wildan)Cinebench 202468 / 367

Specifications

Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 5 7430U and Ryzen 5 5500U

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Released January 5, 2023 January 12, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Zen 3 (Cezanne) Zen 2 (Lucienne)
Integrated GPU Radeon RX Vega 7 Radeon RX Vega 7
Rival Equivalent - Intel Core i5 1335U - Intel Core i5 1135G7
Successor - - AMD Ryzen 5 7520U
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (147th and 165th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 6
P-Threads 12 12
Base Frequency (P) 2.3 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.3 GHz 4 GHz
Total
Total Cores 6 6
Total Threads 12 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 23x 21x
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 16MB (shared) 8MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 10.7 billions -
Fabrication Process 7 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 15 W 10-25 W (configurable)
Socket FP6 FP6
Peak Temperature 95Β°C 105Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Radeon RX Vega 7 Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1800 MHz 1800 MHz
Shading Units 448 448
TMUs 28 28
ROPs 8 8
Execution Units 7 7
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.6 TFLOPS
1.6 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4x-4267
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support Yes No

Misc

Official Site AMD Ryzen 5 7430U official page AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 12

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