Ryzen 5 5500U vs Pentium U5600
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen 5 5500U outperforms Pentium U5600 by a whopping 1969% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
Comparing Pentium U5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 3078 | 978 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | 25 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | Intel Pentium | AMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000) |
| Power efficiency | 2.06 | 30.74 |
| Architecture codename | Arrandale (2010−2011) | Lucienne-U (Zen 2) (2021) |
| Release date | 9 January 2011 (14 years ago) | 12 January 2021 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Pentium U5600 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 cores | 2 (Dual-core) | 6 (Hexa-Core) |
| Threads | 2 | 12 |
| Base clock speed | 1.33 GHz | 2.1 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1.33 GHz | 4 GHz |
| Bus type | DMI 1.0 | no data |
| Bus rate | 1 × 2.5 GT/s | no data |
| Multiplier | 10 | 21 |
| L1 cache | 64K (per core) | 64K (per core) |
| L2 cache | 256K (per core) | 512K (per core) |
| L3 cache | 3 MB (shared) | 8 MB (shared) |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | 7 nm |
| Die size | 81+114 mm2 | 156 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | 105 °C | 105 °C |
| Number of transistors | 384 million | 9,800 million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium U5600 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 configuration | 1 (Uniprocessor) | 1 |
| Socket | Intel BGA1288 | FP6 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 18 Watt | 25 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium U5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | no data | MMX, 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 |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | no data |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | no data |
| Idle States | + | no data |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | - |
| Flex Memory Access | + | no data |
| PAE | 36 Bit | no data |
| FDI | + | no data |
| Fast Memory Access | + | no data |
Security technologies
Pentium U5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | no data |
| EDB | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium U5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | - | + |
| VT-d | - | no data |
| VT-x | - | no data |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium U5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | DDR4 |
| Maximum memory size | 8 GB | 64 GB |
| Max memory channels | 2 | no data |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 12.799 GB/s | no data |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card Compare HD Graphics and Vega 7 | Intel HD Graphics for Previous Generation Intel Processors | AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 ( - 1800 MHz) |
| Clear Video | + | no data |
| Graphics max frequency | 500 MHz | no data |
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of Pentium U5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U integrated GPUs.
| Number of displays supported | 2 | no data |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium U5600 and Ryzen 5 5500U.
| PCIe version | 2.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | 16 | 12 |
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.
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.39 | 8.07 |
| Integrated graphics card | 0.67 | 6.44 |
| Recency | 9 January 2011 | 12 January 2021 |
| Physical cores | 2 | 6 |
| Threads | 2 | 12 |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 18 Watt | 25 Watt |
Pentium U5600 has 38.9% lower power consumption.
Ryzen 5 5500U, on the other hand, has a 1969.2% higher aggregate performance score, 861.2% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 10 years, 200% more physical cores and 500% more threads, and a 357.1% more advanced lithography process.
The Ryzen 5 5500U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium U5600 in performance tests.
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