AMD Ryzen 5 5500F beats their Ryzen 5 5500 in gaming benchmarks by a significant margin
AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500F is delivering more performance than expected in gaming benchmarks
Last week, AMD launched its Ryzen 5 5500F CPU, and early users are reporting surprisingly strong gaming results. According to RandomGaminginHD, the CPU outperforms AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500 by a significant margin, delivering up to 16.1% more gaming performance when paired with a Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB.
Gaming results were recorded at 1080p with 16GB of DDR4-3200 memory on an AMD B550 motherboard. The Ryzen 5 5500F is a six-core CPU based on AMD’s Zen 3-based Cezanne silicon. The CPU lacks integrated graphics and must be used with a discrete graphics card. Unlike the Ryzen 5 5500, the 5500F uses PCIe 4.0. The Ryzen 5 5500 is locked to PCIe 3.0, limiting its PCIe bandwidth. The Ryzen 5 5500F also has a boost clock that is 200MHz higher, but a slower base clock speed.
There’s more to the Ryzen 5 5500F than you think
Across most of the games RandomGaminginHD tested, the Ryzen 5 5500F delivered notably more performance than its non-F counterpart. With its 200 MHz higher boost clock, the 5500F has a boost clock speed that is less than 5% higher than the 5500 non-F. This implies that clock speed alone isn’t what’s giving the Ryzen 5 5500F more gaming performance.
By today’s standards, PCIe 3.0 is slow. For context, AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT supports PCIe 5.0, which is 4x faster than PCIe 3.0. This could explain the large performance gains with AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500F, as it supports PCIe 4.0 instead of PCIe 3.0. The only game that didn’t see notable performance gains with AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500F is Forza Horizon 6, which delivered near-identical framerates on both CPUs.
(Benchmark results – compiled by Videocardz)
At under £90, AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500F is a solid new CPU option for gamers. While AMD’s AM4 socket and Zen 3 CPU architecture are older, both can still deliver ample performance for gamers. With DDR4 memory support and a well-established motherboard platform, this CPU offers much lower platform/memory costs than modern AMD AM5/DDR5-based CPUs. This makes the Ryzen 5 5500F very appealing to budget gamers.
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