AMD Ryzen 5 4500U | Review 

The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U is a Mid Range processor for thin and light laptops based on Renoir architecture. The 4500U has 6 cores and 6 threads with a base clock of 2.3 GHz and which can be boosted to up to 4 GHz. The chip is based on the Zen 2 microarchitecture is manufactured on a 7 nm process by TSMC. Thanks to this new manufacturing process AMD boasts a 2x improvement in performance per watt when compared to its previous generation. The TDP of this Chip is specified by intel to be at 15 Watts but can vary anywhere from 10 to 25 watts. The 6 core APU of the 4500U comes with integrated Vega 6 graphics and supports DDR4-3200 and Low power LPDDR4-4266 RAM.

How is AMD Ryzen 5 4500U? (Good or Bad)

The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U when it comes to real-world performance is a lot better than its 3000 series counterparts. It can easily handle your day-to-day tasks such as Browsing, Streaming, and using office productivity software. Now, if your day-to-day workflow involves using video editing, photo editing, and CAD applications the 4500U is is slightly more powerful than the 10th gen i7 1065G7. Now, let’s have an in-depth look at where the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U stands when compared with its competition. Now the performance can vary based on the configured TDP and Cooling solutions.

PC/Laptops Powered by AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

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Benchmarks and Comparisons: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

Here we will compare the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U against the following processors. (Intel Core i7 1165G7 | Intel Core i5 1135G7 | AMD Ryzen 7 4700U | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | Intel Core i7 1065G7 | AMD Ryzen 5 4600H | Intel Core i7 10510U | Intel Core i5 10210U | Intel Core i5 1035G1 | AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | AMD Ryzen 7 3700U | AMD Ryzen 7 4800U)

How is AMD Ryzen 5 4500U for 3D Animation and Rendering

The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U is a great processor for 3D animation and rendering for a thin and light laptop. When it comes to its single-core performance it performs slightly worse than its 10th Gen Intel counterparts however loses it to its 11th Gen Intel counterparts and in terms of multithreaded benchmarks, it performs better than 11th and 10th Gen Intel counterparts. So what does this mean for AMD Ryzen 5 4500U? Well, it simply means that while you are in your 3D viewport your experience will be very smooth and responsive but less than its intel counterparts however, tasks rendering tasks will take less time than its competitors.

• Blender
• Cinebench R20 single Core
• Cinebench R20 Multi Core
• Cinebench R15 single Core
• Cinebench R15 Multi Core
• Cinebench R23 single Core
• Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Blender is an open-source digital content creation software for 3D-Modeling, Animation, Rendering, Video Editing & Compositing Solutions on the market. Blender has its own benchmarks and is used to measure the rendering capabilities of a CPU or GPU. The following bars indicate the time is taken to render a scene ( Less is better)

How is AMD Ryzen 5 4500U for Video Editing

The HWBOT x265 v2.2 4K benchmark renders a video with a 4K resolution using x265/HEVC encoder and can be used to measure how fast a CPU will encode a video.

• HWBOT x265 v2.2 4K

How is AMD Ryzen 5 4500U for Web Browsing 

• WebXPRT 3 Score