AMD RYZEN 5 5500 PROCESSOR
Serious “Zen 3” high-definition gaming1
Take on the most demanding games with the AMD Ryzen™ 5 5500. Easily play top games with 6 cores, 12 threads, boost clocks of up to 4.2GHz2 and 19MB of total cache.
The newest technologies from AMD
All AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series processors come with the full suite of AMD Ryzen™ technologies designed to elevate your PC’s processing power including Precision Boost 2 and Precision Boost Overdrive3.
Build with confidence
Not only are these processors drop-in ready on AMD 500, 400 and select 300* series motherboards with a simple BIOS update, you can easily tweak and tune your processor with AMD Ryzen™ Master and AMD StoreMI.
*Select motherboards may require BIOS update based on date of manufacture or purchase.
Specification:
| Platform | Desktop |
| Market Segment | Mainstream Desktop |
| Product Family | AMD Ryzen™ Processors |
| Product Line | AMD Ryzen™ 5 Desktop Processors |
| Consumer Use | Yes |
| Architecture | “Zen 3” |
| CPU Cores | 6 |
| Multithreading (SMT) | Yes |
| Threads | 12 |
| Max. Boost Clock | Up to 4.2GHz |
| Base Clock | 3.6GHz |
| L1 Cache | 384KB |
| L2 Cache | 3MB |
| L3 Cache | 16MB |
| Default TDP | 65W |
| Processor Technology for CPU Cores | TSMC 7nm FinFET |
| CPU Compute Die (CCD) Size | 180mm² |
| Package Die Count | 1 |
| Unlocked for Overclocking | Yes |
| CPU Socket | AM4 |
| Socket Count | 1P |
| Supporting Chipsets | X570, X470, X370, B550, B450 B350, A520 |
| CPU Boost Technology | Precision Boost 2 |
| Instruction Set | x86-64 |
| Supported Extensions | AES, AMD-V, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, MMX(+), SHA, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, SSSE3, x86-64 |
| Thermal Solution (PIB) | AMD Wraith Stealth |
| Max. Operating Temperature (Tjmax) | 90°C |
| *OS Support | Windows 11 – 64-Bit Edition Windows 8.1 – 64-Bit Edition RHEL x86 64-Bit Ubuntu x86 64-Bit *Operating System (OS) support will vary by manufacturer. |
| Connectivity | |
| Native USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5Gbps) Ports | 0 |
| USB Type-C® Support | Yes |
| Native USB 4 (40Gbps) Ports | 0 |
| Native USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) Ports | 4 |
| Native USB 2.0 (480Mbps) Ports | 0 |
| Native SATA Ports | 2 |
| PCI Express® Version | PCIe 3.0 |
| Native PCIe® Lanes (Total/Usable) | 24/20 |
| Additional Usable PCIe Lanes from Motherboard; |
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| NVMe Support; | Boot, RAID0, RAID1, RAID10 |
| System Memory Type | DDR4 |
