Ryzen 5 5500U vs Pentium Gold 5405U

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Gold 5405U
2019
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
1.54
Ryzen 5 5500U
2021
6 cores / 12 threads, 15 Watt
8.50
+452%

Ryzen 5 5500U outperforms Pentium Gold 5405U by a whopping 452% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Gold 5405U and Ryzen 5 5500U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2143912
Place by popularitynot in top-10014
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium, Pentium GoldAMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000)
Power efficiency9.3651.67
Architecture codenameWhiskey Lake-U (2018−2019)Lucienne-U (Zen 2) (2021)
Release date23 January 2019 (5 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$161no data

Detailed specifications

Pentium Gold 5405U 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 cores2 (Dual-core)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads412
Base clock speed2.3 GHz2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed2.3 GHz4 GHz
Bus typeOPIno data
Bus rate4 GT/sno data
Multiplier2321
L1 cache64 KB (per core)384 KB
L2 cache256 KB (per core)3 MB
L3 cache2 MB (shared)8 MB (shared)
Chip lithography14 nm7 nm
Die sizeno data156 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °C105 °C
Number of transistorsno data9,800 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Gold 5405U 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1
SocketFCBGA1528FP6
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Ryzen 5 5500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2MMX, 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-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Speed Shift+no data
My WiFi+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Flex Memory Access+no data
Smart Response+no data

Security technologies

Pentium Gold 5405U and Ryzen 5 5500U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
Identity Protection+-
SGXYes with Intel® MEno data
OS Guard+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Ryzen 5 5500U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-d+no data
VT-x+no data
EPT+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Ryzen 5 5500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3, DDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size64 GB64 GB
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel® UHD Graphics for 8th Generation Intel® ProcessorsAMD Radeon Vega 7
Max video memory32 GBno data
Quick Sync Video+-
Clear Video+no data
Clear Video HD+no data
Graphics max frequency950 MHzno data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Gold 5405U and Ryzen 5 5500U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported3no data
eDP+no data
DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-
DVI+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Ryzen 5 5500U integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+no data
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2304@24Hzno data
Max resolution over eDP4096x2304@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2304@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Ryzen 5 5500U integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.5no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Ryzen 5 5500U.

PCIe version2.03.0
PCI Express lanes1212

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Pentium Gold 5405U 1.54
Ryzen 5 5500U 8.50
+452%

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Pentium Gold 5405U 2357
Ryzen 5 5500U 13015
+452%

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Pentium Gold 5405U 3561
Ryzen 5 5500U 5313
+49.2%

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Pentium Gold 5405U 7886
Ryzen 5 5500U 27437
+248%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Pentium Gold 5405U 3224
Ryzen 5 5500U 9185
+185%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Pentium Gold 5405U 22.53
Ryzen 5 5500U 6.22
+262%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Pentium Gold 5405U 3
Ryzen 5 5500U 11
+335%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Pentium Gold 5405U 233
Ryzen 5 5500U 1247
+435%

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Pentium Gold 5405U 93
Ryzen 5 5500U 177
+91.2%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Pentium Gold 5405U 1.06
Ryzen 5 5500U 1.99
+87.7%

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Pentium Gold 5405U 1.4
Ryzen 5 5500U 4.3
+219%

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Pentium Gold 5405U 16
Ryzen 5 5500U 45
+190%

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Pentium Gold 5405U 82
Ryzen 5 5500U 162
+97.6%

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Pentium Gold 5405U 1904
Ryzen 5 5500U 3945
+107%

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Pentium Gold 5405U 1324
Ryzen 5 5500U 5439
+311%

Blender(-)

Pentium Gold 5405U 2180
+423%
Ryzen 5 5500U 417

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Pentium Gold 5405U 585
Ryzen 5 5500U 1108
+89.4%

7-Zip Single

Pentium Gold 5405U 2528
Ryzen 5 5500U 4324
+71%

7-Zip

Pentium Gold 5405U 6502
Ryzen 5 5500U 33768
+419%

WebXPRT 3

Pentium Gold 5405U 103
Ryzen 5 5500U 206
+101%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.54 8.50
Recency 23 January 2019 12 January 2021
Physical cores 2 6
Threads 4 12
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm

Ryzen 5 5500U has a 451.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, 200% more physical cores and 200% more threads, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

The Ryzen 5 5500U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Gold 5405U in performance tests.


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