AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U vs Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.9 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U with 8-cores against the 2.9 GHz Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U with 6-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
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 6650U and 5850U
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • More powerful Radeon RX Vega 8 integrated graphics: 2 vs 1.5 TFLOPS
  • More than 10° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR5-4800 RAM
  • Newer - released 2 years and 1 month later
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
  • More modern manufacturing process – 6 versus 7 nanometers
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.5 GHz vs 4.4 GHz)

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)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 708.5 MB/sec 775.6 MB/sec
Clang compilation 44.7 Klines/sec 50.3 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 140.1 pages/sec 161.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 215.4 Mpixels/sec 199.7 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 200.3 pages/sec 201.1 pages/sec
Background blur 31.1 images/sec 34.2 images/sec
Photo processing 57 images/sec 74.3 images/sec
Ray tracing 11.9 Mpixels/sec 11.8 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2]1041 & 298 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 65.5 GOps/sec 57.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math 34.7 GOps/sec 31.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 45M Primes/sec 48M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 21.1M Strings/sec 19.8M Strings/sec
Data encryption 12.6 GBytes/sec 11.8 GBytes/sec
Data compression 198.3 MBytes/sec 185.3 MBytes/sec
Physics 735 Frames/sec 786 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 12.8B Matrices/sec 12.1B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4]1129 & 305 samples

Blender

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

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 31.2 PPW 17.1 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 467.4 PPW 263.4 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1096.6 PPW 564.5 PPW
Blender / Watt 8.17 PPW 4.42 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 7 Pro 5850U
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-31 -> nguyentsGeekBench1798 / 7686
AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U
No benchmark results yet

Specifications

Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U and Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Released March 16, 2021 April 20, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Zen 3 (Cezanne) Zen 3+ (Rembrandt)
Integrated GPU Radeon RX Vega 8 Radeon 660M
Successor - AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U -
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (144th and 137th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 8 6
P-Threads 16 12
Base Frequency (P) 1.9 GHz 2.9 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.4 GHz 4.5 GHz
Total
Total Cores 8 6
Total Threads 16 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 19x 29x
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 16MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 7 nm 6 nm
TDP (PL1) 15 W 15-28 W (configurable)
Socket FP6 FP7
Peak Temperature 105°C 95°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Radeon RX Vega 8 Radeon 660M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2000 MHz 1900 MHz
Shading Units 512 384
TMUs 32 24
ROPs 8 16
Execution Units 8 6
TGP 25 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
2 TFLOPS
1.5 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4X-4266
- DDR5-4800
- LPDDR5-6400
Max. Memory Size 32 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 68.3 GB/s -
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U official page AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 12 20

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