Ryzen 5 5500U vs Celeron 2.8 GHz

Primary details

Comparing Celeron 2.8 GHz 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 segmentLaptopLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000)
Power efficiencyno data51.64
Architecture codenameNorthwood (2002−2004)Lucienne-U (Zen 2) (2021)
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Celeron 2.8 GHz 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 speed2.8 GHz4 GHz
Bus rate400 MHzno data
Multiplierno data21
L1 cacheno data384 KB
L2 cacheno data3 MB
L3 cacheno data8 MB (shared)
Chip lithography130 nm7 nm
Die sizeno data156 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Number of transistorsno data9,800 million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Celeron 2.8 GHz 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 configurationno data1
Socketno dataFP6
Power consumption (TDP)52.8 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron 2.8 GHz 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 Celeron 2.8 GHz and Ryzen 5 5500U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron 2.8 GHz and Ryzen 5 5500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon Vega 7

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron 2.8 GHz and Ryzen 5 5500U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 6
Threads 1 12
Chip lithography 130 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 52 Watt 15 Watt

Ryzen 5 5500U has 500% more physical cores and 1100% more threads, a 1757.1% more advanced lithography process, and 246.7% lower power consumption.

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