Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H vs Ryzen 5 5500U

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 5 5500U
2021
6 cores / 12 threads, 15 Watt
8.19
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H
2022
8 cores / 16 threads, 45 Watt
14.71
+79.6%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 5 5500U by an impressive 80% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 5500U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking929484
Place by popularity19not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000)no data
Power efficiency31.0030.94
Architecture codenameLucienne-U (Zen 2) (2021)Rembrandt-H (Zen 3+) (2022)
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)19 April 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 5500U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 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 cores6 (Hexa-Core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads1216
Base clock speed2.1 GHz3.2 GHz
Boost clock speed4 GHz4.7 GHz
Multiplier21no data
L1 cache384 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache3 MB512K (per core)
L3 cache8 MB (shared)16 MB (shared)
Chip lithography7 nm6 nm
Die size156 mm2208 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C95 °C
Number of transistors9,800 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 5500U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 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
SocketFP6FP7
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEPRO, 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++
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR5
Maximum memory size64 GBno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 ( - 1800 MHz)AMD Radeon 680M ( - 2200 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H.

PCIe version3.04.0
PCI Express lanes1220

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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 8.19
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 14.71
+79.6%

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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 13010
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 23361
+79.6%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Ryzen 5 5500U 1287
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 1816
+41.1%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Ryzen 5 5500U 4528
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 8483
+87.3%

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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 5313
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 5791
+9%

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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 27437
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 34412
+25.4%

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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 9185
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 11620
+26.5%

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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 6.22
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 3.72
+67.2%

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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 11
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 21
+86.9%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Ryzen 5 5500U 1247
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 2086
+67.2%

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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 177
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 205
+15.9%

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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 1.99
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 2.6
+30.7%

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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 4.3
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 9.1
+112%

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.

Ryzen 5 5500U 3945
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 5263
+33.4%

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.  

Ryzen 5 5500U 45
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 104
+130%

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.  

Ryzen 5 5500U 162
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 222
+37.1%

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 5 5500U 5439
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 8472
+55.8%

Blender(-)

Ryzen 5 5500U 417
+72.5%
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 242

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 5 5500U 1108
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 1478
+33.3%

7-Zip Single

Ryzen 5 5500U 4324
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 5417
+25.3%

7-Zip

Ryzen 5 5500U 33768
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 54445
+61.2%

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 5 5500U 206
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 232
+12.6%

CrossMark Overall

Ryzen 5 5500U 1049
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 1407
+34.1%

WebXPRT 4 Overall

Ryzen 5 5500U 156
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 180
+14.9%

Blender v3.3 Classroom CPU(-)

Ryzen 5 5500U 749
+59.4%
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 470

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 8.19 14.71
Integrated graphics card 7.47 15.33
Recency 12 January 2021 19 April 2022
Physical cores 6 8
Threads 12 16
Chip lithography 7 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 45 Watt

Ryzen 5 5500U has 200% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H, on the other hand, has a 79.6% higher aggregate performance score, 105.2% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 1 year, 33.3% more physical cores and 33.3% more threads, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

The Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H is our recommended choice as it beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in performance tests.


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