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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
A six-core, 12-thread Zen 2 chip for budget laptops, the Ryzen 5 5500U shares its 15W default TDP and 8MB L3 cache with the Ryzen 7 5700U but drops two cores for a lower price point. It remains common in entry-level laptops and still handles everyday browsing and office work well.
Pros
- Six Zen 2 cores and 12 threads cover everyday multitasking
- Same 8MB L3 cache and 15W default TDP as the higher-tier 5700U
- Vega 7 graphics manage light gaming and video playback
- Common in affordable laptops, keeping used and budget prices low
Cons
- Six cores trail higher core-count Zen 2 and Zen 3 rivals in multi-core work
- Vega 7 iGPU has one fewer compute unit than the 5700U/5800U's Vega 8
- DDR4/LPDDR4 platform lags newer LPDDR5-equipped budget chips
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
General
- Announced
- 2021
- Process
- 7 nm
- Base TDP
- 15 W
- Max TDP
- 25 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 6
- Performance cores
- 6
- Threads
- 12
- Base clock
- 2.1 GHz
- Boost clock
- 4 GHz
- L3 cache
- 8 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- AMD Radeon Vega 7
- iGPU clock
- 1,800 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR4-3200 / LPDDR4-4266
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 1,517Bottom 9%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 5,872Bottom 13%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,172Bottom 14%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 7,209Bottom 24%
- PassMark
- 12,592Bottom 24%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 980Bottom 35%
Quick answers
Is the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U good in 2026?
The AMD Ryzen 5 5500U earns an Inno Score of 43/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. A six-core, 12-thread Zen 2 chip for budget laptops, the Ryzen 5 5500U shares its 15W default TDP and 8MB L3 cache with the Ryzen 7 5700U but drops two cores for a lower price point. It remains common in entry-level laptops and still handles everyday browsing and office work well.
Does the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 12,592 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26, 2026), which puts it in Tier C of our CPU tier checker: older or low-power Core i7, and many recent Core i5 chips. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
What are the key specs of the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U?
Cores: 6 · Threads: 12 · Boost clock: 4 GHz · Base TDP: 15 W
What are the closest alternatives to the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Ryzen 7 4700U, AMD Ryzen 5 5600H, Intel Core i7-1165G7 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
