AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs AMD Ryzen 7 4980U Microsoft Surface Edition: comparison

Key differences

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U has a higher base clock (2.1 GHz vs 2 GHz).

At the same time, AMD Ryzen 7 4980U Microsoft Surface Edition has more cores (8 vs 6), more threads (16 vs 12), a higher maximum clock (4.4 GHz vs 4 GHz) and a higher maximum integrated graphics clock (1.95 GHz vs 1.8 GHz).

Both processors match on: L3 cache (8 MB), TDP (15 W), process node (7 nm), PCIe version (3).

These are specification values: they show differences between the models but do not determine a performance winner. For a specific workload, rely on independent benchmarks.