AMD Ryzen 7 5800H vs Ryzen 5 5500U
We compared two laptop CPUs: the 3.2 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with 8-cores against the 2.1 GHz Ryzen 5 5500U with 6-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Review
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
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 5800H
- Has 8192 KB larger L3 cache size
- Supports up to 64 GB DDR4-3200 RAM
- Has 2 more physical cores
- 35% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 1964 vs 1457 points
- 10% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.4 GHz vs 4 GHz)
Promotion
Test in Benchmarks
Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasksCinebench R23
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
| File compression | 739.8 MB/sec | 447.7 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 61.5 Klines/sec | 35.7 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 143.3 pages/sec | 114.7 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 259.8 Mpixels/sec | 180.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 205.6 pages/sec | 114.9 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 38.2 images/sec | 27.5 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 59.6 images/sec | 40.4 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 15.3 Mpixels/sec | 9.84 Mpixels/sec |
PassMark
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
| Integer math | 83.6 GOps/sec | 46.4 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 45.5 GOps/sec | 26.8 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 49M Primes/sec | 26M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 29M Strings/sec | 19.7M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 17.5 GBytes/sec | 10.8 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 277.5 MBytes/sec | 179.3 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 816 Frames/sec | 541 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 18.5B Matrices/sec | 11.1B Matrices/sec |
Specifications
Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 7 5800H and Ryzen 5 5500UGeneral
| Vendor | AMD | AMD |
| Released | January 12, 2021 | January 12, 2021 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Zen 3 (Cezanne) | Zen 2 (Lucienne) |
| Integrated GPU | Radeon RX Vega 8 | Radeon RX Vega 7 |
CPU
| P-Cores | 8 | 6 |
| P-Threads | 16 | 12 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 3.2 GHz | 2.1 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | 4.4 GHz | 4 GHz |
| Total Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Total Threads | 16 | 12 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz | 100 MHz |
| Multiplier | 32x | 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
| Fabrication process | 7 nm | 7 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 35-54 W (configurable) | 10-25 W (configurable) |
| Socket | FP6 | FP6 |
| Peak temperature | 105°C | 105°C |
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | Radeon RX Vega 8 | Radeon RX Vega 7 |
| GPU Base Clock | - | 300 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 2000 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Shading Units | 512 | 448 |
| TMUs | 32 | 28 |
| ROPs | 8 | 7 |
| TGP | 15 W | 10-45 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Memory Support
| Memory types | - DDR4-3200 - LPDDR4-4266 |
- DDR4-3200 - LPDDR4-4266 |
| Memory Size | 64 GB | 32 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 68.27 GB/s | - |
| ECC Support | Yes | No |
Misc
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 7 5800H official page | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page |
| PCI Express Version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 16 | 12 |
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