Ryzen 5 5500U vs Athlon 600

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon 600 and Ryzen 5 5500U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated917
Place by popularitynot in top-10014
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000)
Power efficiencyno data51.70
Architecture codenameThunderbird (1999−2000)Lucienne-U (Zen 2) (2021)
Release date29 November 1999 (24 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$615no data

Detailed specifications

Athlon 600 and Ryzen 5 5500U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores1 (Single-Core)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads112
Base clock speedno data2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed0.6 GHz4 GHz
Multiplierno data21
L1 cache128 KB384 KB
L2 cache512 KB3 MB
L3 cache0 KB8 MB (shared)
Chip lithography180 nm7 nm
Die size102 mm2156 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)70 °Cno data
Number of transistors22 million9,800 million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 600 and Ryzen 5 5500U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11
SocketAFP6
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 600 and Ryzen 5 5500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI-+
FMA-+
AVX-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 600 and Ryzen 5 5500U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 600 and Ryzen 5 5500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardN/AAMD Radeon Vega 7

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon 600 and Ryzen 5 5500U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 November 1999 12 January 2021
Physical cores 1 6
Threads 1 12
Chip lithography 180 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 15 Watt

Ryzen 5 5500U has an age advantage of 21 year, 500% more physical cores and 1100% more threads, a 2471.4% more advanced lithography process, and 86.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Athlon 600 and Ryzen 5 5500U. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Athlon 600 is a desktop processor while Ryzen 5 5500U is a notebook one.


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