AMD Ryzen 5 5500F Gaming Test Shows Up to 16% Lead Over Ryzen 5 5500 at 1080p

AMD's Ryzen 5 5500F is a 6-core, 12-thread processor priced at USD 99, positioned alongside the Ryzen 5 5500 as an entry-level Zen 3-era product. The test platform used a Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB graphics card and ran seven games at 1080p.

The results showed that in some games with higher CPU loads, the Ryzen 5 5500F's average frame rate led the Ryzen 5 5500 by up to about 16%. It led by about 16% in Battlefield 6, about 11% in Cyberpunk 2077, about 9% in GTA V Enhanced, and about 8% in Counter-Strike 2. In games more dependent on graphics performance, such as Crimson Desert and Red Dead Redemption 2, the gap narrowed to single digits and nearly disappeared in some scenarios. The data come from a single test platform.

The two processors use different underlying architectures. The Ryzen 5 5500F uses the chiplet architecture codenamed Vermeer, has a boost frequency 200MHz higher than the Ryzen 5 5500, and supports PCIe 4.0; the Ryzen 5 5500 uses the monolithic design codenamed Cezanne and supports only PCIe 3.0. Both have 6 cores and 12 threads. The Ryzen 5 5500F has 16MB of L3 cache, while the Ryzen 5 5600, also part of the Vermeer family, has 32MB of L3 cache. With the launch of the Ryzen 5 5500F, the AM4 platform gains a new 6-core processor, priced at USD 99.