The motherboard used for testing is the old MSI B350 Tomahawk using the latest BIOS revision based on the AGESA 1.2.0.7 microcode, which enables Resizable BAR along with support for Ryzen 5000 processors. It sounds like many of you using older Ryzen 5 parts want to know if the 5500 is a worthwhile upgrade, or should you just opt for the 5600 or higher, so today we're going to find out.įor this one we've got a 21 game benchmark at 1080p and 1440p using both the Radeon RX 6950 XT and 6600 XT, with SAM enabled. The 元 cache downgrade alone is a big one as we've seen it lead to underwhelmight gaming performance for the 5600G and 5700G when compared to full fledged Zen 3 parts. In short, the 5500 is a 5600G with the iGPU removed and that means when compared to the 5600 you're getting half the 元 cache at 16MB and only PCIe 3.0 support. Whereas the 5600 is a Vermeer model, the 5500 uses the APU design codenamed Cezanne. Surely, they are both Zen 3 based, 6-core/12-thread processors, but they're based on different designs. The Ryand 5600 are vastly different products. and that's what makes the 5500 a sneaky move by AMD. That's a $40 discount from the Ryzen 5 5600, which isn't much, but then going purely by the name it doesn't sound like there's much difference between these two chips either. Recently though, after comparing the Ryand 5600 we were asked by many for a comparison with the 5500, given it can be snapped up for $140.

At that point it was kind of old news, so we moved on to other things. The short version is that the R5 5500 was quietly released back in April and AMD didn't sample media in time for a day-one review, instead we got our sample a week after they hit shelves. Surprisingly enough, this CPU was released about three months ago and it's the cheapest Ryzen 5000 series part you can have, so you'd think we'd be all over it, but for a few reasons we've missed that coverage. Today we're finally taking our first look at the Ryzen 5 5500.

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