There has been news about AMD Ryzen 5 5500U chip, which belongs to the Lucienne laptop family. Apparently, the Lucienne processors will be the updated chips of the current Renoir family, so we should not see any major changes.
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U would be a ‘renamed’ Ryzen 5 4600U
The Ryzen 5 5500U chip is a 6-core, 12-threads processor with an 8 MB L3 cache. As such it will use Zen 2 cores and integrated Vega graphics. Geekbench 5 recognized processor with a base clock of 2.1 GHz, which can be increased to 4.04 GHz. The specifications seem very similar to those of a current Ryzen 5 4600U.
Within Geekbench 5 we can see the results this processor has. The best-recorded scores are 1,133 and 5,881 points in a single thread or in multiple threads. Among the many points we have found for the Ryzen 5 4600U, we can see a score of 1087 and 5844 points in single and multiple thread tests, respectively.
This means that the Ryzen 5 5500U is a renamed Ryzen 5 4600U, with hardly any performance improvements. We are talking about a 4.2% margin in favor of the 5500U in the single thread test, based on Geekbench’s results.
The integrated GPU is not tested. The Vega graphics consists of 6 Compute Units (CUs) in this processor, the same configuration as the Ryzen 5 4600U. If we expect a big jump, we should wait for the Ryzen 6000U series, which would be based on Zen 3 and nav graphics.
The first laptops with these AMD APU CPUs will be shipped in early 2021. We will keep you up to date.