Don't Choose Wrong - Ryzen 5 5500 & 4500 Review

The Ryzen 5 5500 and Ryzen 5 4500 are some of the most affordable Zen CPU's that AMD has ever launched. With X370 motherboard backwards compatibility, their price is perfect for 2022 gaming PC upgrades too. But there's something you need to know about performance....

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0:00 - Ryzen 5 5500 Specs & Pricing
2:19 - Ryzen 5 4500 Specs & Pricing
3:00 - The Upgrade Path
4:34 - Power & Temperatures
5:21 - Sponsor Spot
5:59 - Real World Performance
8:06 - Gaming Performance
9:30 - The Good & The BAD!

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[garetts]

I don't know why this guy's take on these processors is so bad this 5500 looks amazing. Guaranteed it will play your games just fine high frame rates smooth great experience don't listen to these enthusiast CPU pushers. don't let them make you feel bad for buying a cheap chip for gaming when it's perfectly fine probably amazing. If this is in your price range and you don't want to spend a crazy amount with the next gen you're going to love it after all don't these guys always say spend responsibly

[lifeisbeautiful]

In my country, the ryzen 5 4500 is much cheaper than ryzen 5 5500 and i am more than happy with the performance, also those extra high frames aren't much usable and a selling point for the 5500 cause i can't see past 144, just for a casual gamer and a student 4500 is the sweetest deal for me rather than spending 3-4 thousand rupees more for just few frames that i can't even make out a difference from if only I have msi afterburner running on the screen isn't worth it in my opinion

[elzafir]

One thing to remember when buying cheaper CPU is which GPU will you pair it with. Most reviewers pair budget CPUs with top of the line GPUs to eliminate GPU bottleneck, BUT in real life, if you're considering a sub-$150 CPU it is most likely you'll pair it with a sub $400 GPU at MOST, although a sub $300 GPU is much more likely. The difference between a $100 Ryzen 5 3600 (same performance as a R5 5500) and the $350 Ryzen 7 5800X3D (equivalent to a R5 7600) paired with a $400 RX 6700 XT GPU is 38% in Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 1080p Highest settings. That's 122fps vs 169fps. And only 2fps difference on Cyberpunk 2077 on 1080p Ultra. When comparing $100 Ryzen 5 5500 with a $150 Ryzen 5 5600 paired with a $300 RX 6600 XT or RTX 3060, the difference will be a LOT smaller, and if you only have a 1080p 75Hz monitor, the difference won't matter at all since your monitor can't display the extra frames. Sure, the 5500 will bottleneck an RTX 4070 Ti, and even the RX 6700 XT, but so will the 5600! And do you really think you will spend $900 for a GPU in the next 3 years? By that time you have a $900 burning a hole in your pocket, which can be YEARS down the line, might as well build a whole new AM6 system.

[Grahambv]

I just don't understand how AMD can introduce 4000 and 5000 processors that don't support PCIE 4.0 but a RYZEN 3100 or 3600 does support it. Why introduce the budget 6500 XT but make it terrible with your budget processors? That didn't hurt miners, and scalpers didn't buy it. It only hurt gamers.

[lifeisbeautiful]

That was the smoothest sponsor video ad transition I've ever witnessed

[adhi]

I honestly think that 4500 and 5500 are to fill the lack of lower end Zen4 processors

[shadow]

I’m just made the jump from a 2600 to a 5950x arriving today. I think I wait wait for end of life cycle platforms mainly because I’m switching to 4-5 year life cycle. The reason being I do a lot of virtualization and emulation.

[Steve-gooq]

Just received my 5600 an hour ago. Cheaper than the X but not pared down as much as the 5500... and PCIE 4.0

[lmchua]

The reason why the 4500 did worse than the 3300x in games is due to its l3 cache, not frequency.

4500 is a "Renoir" 3+3 core CPU and 3300x is "Matisse" 4+0 core CPU, which means the 4500 has 4+4mb worth of cache whereas 3300x has 16mb of essentially unified cache.

Since in most games it's better to just keep the entire game in 1 side of the CCD, you are looking at a performance of a 3c6t processor with 4mb cache vs a 4c8t processor with 16mb cache. It's quite clear how the 3300x won here.

[haleybelair]

I am so happy to find your channel today. I have been looking for a Canadian view on PC hardware and pricing.

[carleynorthcoast]

You have to take price into consideration a 4500 right now is half the price of that 11th gen i5 and you have a lot of Zen 3 upgrade options and used ryzen 3600's for good prices.

[BettercallSOLMTG]

I had a 5 2600 and upgraded to the 5 5500 and I'm happy with it. I manged to oc it to 4.2ghz and for 1440p gaming with my 3060 its awesome. I don't even have a crazy air cooler on it and I never see it rise about 65 C

[HasTakes]

Great video thanks for all this information !

[elijahjaydimaano]

I still use a Ryzen 5 1400....
Currently 5500 is at 60$ price range.
I think this is the best upgrade option for me since I updated the bios of my à320 to the latest which supports 5000 series.

[routineharpy]

As of right now, the 5500 is hovering around 100 bucks on NewEgg up to 4.2ghz and would be a decent pair up to a 3060/6600 at 1080p, not even considering you don't have to pay a dime for a cooler because the stock cooler is plenty up to a 5600. What a deal.

[Toucans]

You should also look into the price of the boards for Intel and AMD as Intel boards cost WAY more

[giorx]

5500 is made for people with over 5 year old PCs that don't have much money. WIth a $70 board, this CPU and a $70 16GB RAM kit yuo have an upgrade very good that doesn't bottleneck any GPU sold for less than $500 before the end of 2020 ; ) And that relatively cheap system will later be able to get even a 16-core 5950X. And do not even think that until the summer of 2023 will AMD launch any budget Zen4 CPU...

[xaviblox]

i am upgrading my pc with this budget cpu and can't wait to see the difference, mind you my old processor is a Intel dual core. So massive upgrade for me.

[johndoh]

AMD actually put out a lot of the 3100 and 3300X. They got scalped like CRAZY. They disappeared immediately and then the 3300X started showing up in large numbers at $200 USD which was a CRAZY price to pay for it. I've still seen them being sold. At one point in the last year I saw the 3300X for $130 USD, slightly above its MSRP and it was being sold as "new", so this was something a scalper probably sat on for a long time trying to make lots of money on it only to find out most people weren't willing to pay a crazy price for the part, since Zen 3 was right around the corner anyway. And then Zen 3 beat it so badly it just wasn't worth buying.

[JMark]

The 5500 is for sure that “drop in” option for X370/470 motherboards. With a bios update this will breath some life into mid to lower end systems