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
The take stresses that there are better options available for the same money. These chips are only really great if you already have a system and want to upgrade just the CPU without swapping the motherboard.
Coming from someone who just upgraded from a 14 year old cpu.. yeah the 5500 is amazing. Too many cyclical pc upgraders not understanding the value for last last gen cpu users. Its £100 for a solid current gen experience. Vs intels jacked up price is a no brainer
This is what I need to know. Im want to build a PC and All these people talking shit about the 5500 makes me question even thougj I dont want a massive PC, only one to play and do my College work with
@@jpsaglimbeni The ryzen 5 5500 or ryzen 3 3100 will be good for what you need. My son has ryzen 3 3100 with rx 6600 and it plays amazing for the price
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
@@marcelogonzalez8664 For a GPU, I recommend the GTX 1660 Ti, Radeon 6600 XT or higher. If you have something lower performance like the GTX 1650 it won't do as good in higher graphics games, since the GPU usage will max out, and the processor won't get to do as much. In other words, bottlenecking.
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.
And then there's the 4500 with 2 generations old performance 🤣, like whuuut? It's probably designed for people without knowledge who think it will be between Ryzen 3600 and 5600 when the number is 4500 but it actually has significantly worse performance even than Ryzen 3600.
It is quite cheap though, and it's still better than a 2600. It could be a good upgrade for someone who's still on a first gen quad-core Ryzen CPU, but the price isn't exactly that great compared to Intel 12th gen equivalents, but those CPUs don't really need to compete against Intel 12th gen. As underwhelming as the 4500 is, its value per dollar is still much better than the higher-end CPUs from both brands. People aren't getting a horribly over-priced piece of junk, they're getting mildly over-priced but still decent value low-end part. All that being said, the 5600 just seems SO MUCH BETTER. And, for someone on a tight budget, a used 3600 or used 2600, or used 3300X, etc.. could all be great options.
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
@Francis Philip Lopez nope, even upgraded to a 2080ti and I'm not seeing any performance issues. Over clocked past 4.2 but it starts to heat up. Might have to under volt if you want heat to be a bit more manageable or get a better cooler
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.
That's an impressive jump. The problem with some "old" AM4 mobos (for 1 and 2 gen) is that the vrm wasn't the best, and it's hard to ask them to run 12 or 16 cores.
@@ar1xx._.626 i wasn’t looking to do a platform change. I had a x570 board already I just updated the bios and the chip was on sale for $450 second hand.
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.
How? They have chips which don't support PCIe 4.0 and they can't use them in mobile space. Chips in 4500 and 5500 have broken iGPU, so it gets disabled and packaged as budget desktop CPU. You might ask why not use silicon which supports PCIe 4.0, answer is they are already selling all of it as 5600, 5600X etc. Budget DIY segment is bottom in priority list. In every single company out there.
@@brosplit It doesn't hurt the miners. Mining uses very little PCIE bandwidth to begin with, so the reduction from 4.0 to 3.0 doen't hurt them at all. It will hurt a gamer looking for a cheap CPU to pair with a budget GPU like the 6500XT. That GPU loses around 10% of its performance on a 3.0 bus vs 4.0.
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 $130 USD, slightly above its MSRP and it was being sold as "new", so this was something a scalper probably sat on for a long time trying to make lots of money on it only to find out most people weren't willing to pay a crazy price for the part, since Zen 3 was right around the corner anyway. And then Zen 3 beat it so badly it just wasn't worth buying.
i dont believe you (about the 3300x) i wouldnt be surprised if that product was ONLY put out to reviewers. Right now on ebay there are only 6 of them in all of north america.
I still use a Ryzen 5 1400.... Currently 5500 is at 60$ 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.
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...
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.
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.
The stock cooler is fine as long as your not in cinibench for some reason my 5500 draws 75W at full load and reaches 93C after 10 min it also pretty much refuses to throttle and stays at 4.2ghz😂
@@tuckerhiggins4336 If you are happy with an R5 1600, then one of these would surely keep you happy too.. and AM5 would just be massive unnecessary overkill. So pop in one of these in a year or two, and wait for AM6.
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.
The lack of PCE-e gen 4 support would have also contributed on some games, but the lack of PCI-e Gen 4 support isn't likely to be an issue... except unless of course someone tries to use it with a 6500 XT. But, then again, most older AM4 boards don't support PCI-e Gen 4 anyway.
exactly, Zen 2 uses 2 CCXs and Zen 3 use Unified Cache, which mean core to core latency is now never a thing on zen3 cpus, also the 4000 and 5000 cpu based on apu, could run higher UCLK, which is pretty much beneficial for memory overclockers out there, espescially 4000 series cpu due to less cache, and intercore latency that needs faster infinity fab. 3300X only use 1 CCX, i would say tht 3300X is an example of Zen 3 in a nutshell but with Zen 2 cores, since the io die is pretty much the same between 5000 and 3000 series.
ryzen 5 4650G the integrated video is disabled and you put 100MHZ less there it is the ryzen 5 4500 will perform less than a traditional zen 2 (3600 and 3600x) as it is an apu it has less cache and also pci 3.0 will perform less than a ryzen 5 3600.
Are you ok jumping on a "first gen" technology? I got a r7 1700 and an x370 board. I was totally happy with it, DDR4 was already mature unlike DDR5 right now. I'm upset that I had to buy a new motherboard to upgrade, even now my x370 doesn't support 5000 series. So a first gen AM5 socket with a promised "long life" and overpriced DDR5. I feel kinda burned and will be sitting on a 5600x for a long time now.
@@RageQuitSon for me the only problem would be ram. I think I will switch to a new platform in 1y roughly. At that time ddr5 should be mature enough and not look stupid
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.
I love how HWC make recommendations based on various scenarios in consideration of the strengths and weaknesses of each CPU instead of just throwing out numbers and leaving viewers to apply the data on their own. Thanks for the great content!
the r5 5500 was absolutely not worth the price when it was €160, but now its €120 and when you account for motherboard prices, both 12100f and 5500 would land at about the same price range. I think that the r5 5500 now is better value than 12100f since they have about the same gaming performance albeit 5500 is maybe 5%-10% slower which is negligible and can be negated with overclocking since the r5 5500 supports overclocking combined with a better choice for motherboards with better VRMs on AM4. You can't underestimate how much better the choice for motherboard is on AM4 side. In conclusion: R5 5500: Pros: - on par gaming performance, but much better productivity performance; - Better and cheaper motherboard choices. Cons: - No PCIE 4.0; - AM4 is EOL so no new CPUs for upgrading down the road.
You would never recommend a CPU that gets way above 60fps+ for gaming at a really low price? It's 120$ where I live. It's the new R5 1600af in my book.
Better review than others who have focused only of the R5 4500 shit gaming, while missing that if you have an x370 which you use for Compiling of light production work it good. I was looking at a 12100 combo to replace my ageing 2200G system, now I might retire the x370 board into a home server if I can get a
Shut up a$$ wipe 4500 would be a great option for those who don't have their own petroleum plants you clown , 5500 is much more expensive than 4500 for gaming performance that don't even make sense in real life for a casual gamer and a student looking to build a pc
Dropped my $120 R5-5600g into my X370 Motherboard. I am hoping the new APU and BIOS will make the board less finicky with RAM. currently working with 2666, but it had a tantrum when I tried to Install 3200 mhz, back in 2017. Hoping for the bestbut, as is, I am very happy. Oh, how I wish i could extend the life of my other MB/cpu, like my AM4 build. It is nice ASUS Maximus VIII Ranger and 6600k.
Well, I tried 16gb of RAM @ 3200 mhz, and @ 3600 mhz. I guess have to live with 2666mhz with this Motherboard. I use (overkill) 360mm AIO. I have another, new build, using a B550 Motherboard, and a smaller 240mm AIO, equipped with a GTX 980ti. The new board runs 10 degrees cooler. Maybe its the old board itself, maybe by using the Integrated graphics put more strain on the MB, making more heat.
7:50 "i would go with the 12400f since that platform will stick around much longer". Ooo that aged poorly. Amd released new AM4 Chips this year meanwhile lga1700 is a deadman walking with very little difference between 12000 and 14000 series. Meanwhile a jump between a ryzen 5 3600 to a ryzen 5 5600 would be night and day
When the 5500 is cheaper than the 12100f (as it is at the moment in the uk), It looks like a great deal, you get an upgrade path all the way to the 5800x3d and 2 extra cores for a little bit of extra performance in multicore titles and future games all while having more cache and a far cheaper motherboard selection.
I would not build a new system unless it supports all new Tech. AMD is just off loading their crap for now. They got to do something with all that old silicone. $
I have 2 PCs, one is mine and one is my little brother's. He's only gaming while I'm not, both PCs run an RX6600XT so I think I'll just buy 2 R5-5500s to replace the old 1500x and 2600 present in these systems. Great deal, especially considering they're only $95 on newegg, while the 5600 is like 160$. Both PCs don't support PCIe 4 anyways
I see the 4500 as the modern equivalent to the 1600 AF but a lot faster. Microcenter has these at $109 now and it will run on a inexpensive A320 board or better. The nearest modern Intel equivalent is the i5-10400 which is more expensive.
Not 10400 but 10400F (non F comes with an iGPU, not a comparable product). It is comparable to 5500 in gaming (depending on the game) and costs exactly as much as 4500.
@@CanIHasThisName Using 10th Gen Intel maybe cheap but very limiting compared to AMD where you can pretty much use any Ryzen cpu with any motherboard now.
@@davidg2731 That is no longer a big selling point because the AM4 socket will be getting replaced. 4500 and 5500 are exactly the CPUs meant for users of old low-end Ryzens and I'll be getting one of them for my sister's PC soon. I definitely wouldn't be getting them for a new system, they're only compelling because I don't have to get a new motherboard and I can sell the old CPU for a little bit of cash that will go towards RAM. 4 years from now, it is extremely unlikely any of the current CPUs will make for a compelling upgrade. Second hand market prices tend to be too high (people are still trying to sell used Haswell i7 CPUs for more than current i3, which is more powerful) and even something 5600x isn't really a good upgrade for this (considering the price).
In reality, no one is putting a 3090/4090 gpu with these cpu choices. I know they want to show performance differences but with a 3060 or so, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a 4500 and a 5500 at all in gaming.
that would be me...i have a B450 board w 2600, so was thinking should i get 5600 or 5500. 5500 seems quite ok, with a GTX 1070. I think next year, I probably get a Raptor Lake w RTX 4060 or 4070, reason being, I got lotsa DDR4 ram. Raptor Lake should be the last gen supporting DDR4 & should get a nice IPC bump....LOL
@@peipengloy1377 i have bought 5500, undervolted to 1.2v and overclocked slightly to 4.3GHz don`t go over 66c and gives 4130 in r20 cinebench, not bad at all for older boards.
Oh thank goodness for this review and comparison. I am helping a friend put together a pc and this was immense because the budget is tight but the am4 mobo is free so kind of a no brainer to go with the 5500 in their case.
Только мэн забыл что 4500 можно разгонять. Никто в здравом уме не ставит 4500 к 3080. 4500 будет трудится с 3050\3060\3060ti, а с этими картами разница будет минимальна + с разгоном 4500 можно получить разницу в 5-10fps по итогу. Если у вас проблемы с деньгами и есть материнская плата на А320, В350, В450, Х370 и процессор 1600\2600 и ниже, то спокойно берите 4500. Платформа АМ4 будет актуальна ещё лет 5 минимум.
Just upgraded from a Ryzen 5 2600 (it waS way past time) to the Ryzen 5 5500. Got it for $90 on sale at Amazon. Plus upgraded my motherboard to go with this (Asus Rog Strix B550-F ... $157). Reusing ram I have and video card. So at that price I think I'm going to be fine. Heck my old Ryzen 5 2600 can run some AAA games still, like the new resident evil game village. I think spme people (and I used to be one a long time ago but to old and tired to care now lol) think they have to get the best and latest to play the latest games. Not true. Most reviewers just want to obsess on percentages which at the end of the day mean nothing.
thanks for the first intelligent review of these new lower-priced cpus, and where they realistically fit in the market and since you mentioned it, if lga1700 gets one more generation of cpus/apus, it's already halfway to end of life at less than 12 months...which is nowhere near as long as am4 has been supported (and to be transparent, this is being typed on an i7 920 (on 1366) machine, which is going to be replaced by an x570s setup)
I guess there would be no noticeable difference fps among r5 4500, r5 5500 and r5 5600 using a middle level card like a gtx 1660 super.. with a monitor limited to 60 fps.. so.. maybe I'm wrong, but I think the 4500 would be the sweet spot wise at around 100 euros..
I have that build You mention. R5 4500 and gtx1660 super and is not as bad. O still wondering about overclock it for higher performance. I played apex Legends on 1080p every set in low and it's very good 144fps, also on med setings 110fps
Hmm I still don't think they're quite competitive at those prices, especially when there's a strong second-hand market for am4 chips. Why get a $160 5500 when you could get 5600x or g for about the same
In my country R5 4500/5500 is sold for 60$/78$ brand-new.. fps wise these processors doesn't differ that much in performance compared 5600 and 5600x. Definitely a bang for your buck if ya ask me
This dude tells you that if you spend more money on the cpu it will be better. Yeah no shit sherlock. Just cuz the lower end cpus cant output 300fps on the newest games while paired with a 4090 doesnt mean that the cpu is bad. In an polish-only online stores the ryzen 5 4500 goes for around 75$, while 5 5600 goes for 175$. 4500 is enough for most games if you dont intend to play on the absolute max cpu-heavy graphic settings. The 6 cores are really usesful when it comes to rendering. Its enough. You dont need 12 core 5 GHz CPUs to game.
@@zodwraith5745 Im talking about polish prices tho? The 12100f is around 105 $ You can pay 5$ extra for ryzen 5 3600 which is a bit better than 4500. Lets be real, all of these CPUs can run any non CPU heavy game at 1080p. Stop crying intel fanboy
@@Wolferr47 I don't give a shit about Intel. I'm a fan of value and for the majority of the world Intel is killing AMD on value. I just got a 12700k for $250 and _nothing_ AMD offers can compete with that for value. Not all of us are playing "non CPU heavy games." That's like saying "This race car is great as long as you never use it for racing." The fact you instantly jump to insults only proves you're a brainless AMD fanboy pissed off that big bad Intel is showing AMD's greed now days. Intel is beating AMD for value all across the board.
@@imbranTV I am satisfied with the gaming performance for my requirements. Previously had a Ryzen 7 1700 and I think the Ryzen 5 has made a good leap in performance simply because of the higher clock rate. My graphics card is the Radeon RX 6600.
I bought r5 5500 for 89 bucks at micro center so I don’t regret it so bye bye I7 8700. Main reason is warzone 2.0 new maps laggy as hell on I7 8700. Now r5 5500 pairing with rx 6600 no issue.
if you only use it for streaming and stream from another computer: Yes. If you play and stream from same computer, the 4 core chips are useless, and you'd better invest in a decent 6 thread chip like the 5600 or 12400 as a minimum.
Great review! I gotta say, it's too bad AMD hasn't fixed my(and many others) USB drop-out issue on my b350 board or I'd be looking to upgrade my cpu as I'm only running a 1600.
I don't think B450 boards have that problem. I had a b450 gaming plus and a 2600. B450 boards are still being produced so you don't necessarily have to buy a b550 or an X470 or X570 board. You can upgrade to a 6 core or a 65 watt 8 core (5700x) for $100 or less for the motherboard.
AM4 is not at the end of its life. It will be supported for many years. When you say End of Life, that's the same as "EOL", and that has a particular meaning of support going away, and that includes hardware and software support. AM4 is going to be supported for many years. It's a dominant platform. Words matter. In fact anyone with an X570 MB has full PCIe gen4, and the advantage of gen5 over gen4 isn't going to show up any time soon, unless a GPU comes out as PCIe gen5 X4. I suspect this will happen for low end GPUs because THAT speed is the same as PCIe gen3 X16 which is PLENTY for low end GPUs, it's more than enough for the next few years, AND PCIe gen5 X4 will be lower latency than PCIe gen3 X16 because each data transfer happens quicker, like 4X the speed.
What does "dominant platform" even mean? AM4 will not be getting any new CPUs. That's the end of its life, it will become a dead platform. This can also mean that AM4 boards may stop being manufactured relatively soon. There's no point generalizing, it means a very specific thing when it comes to CPU sockets.
I wouldn’t buy these chips unless they were found for cheap. Luckily, microcenter (if your near one) sells the 5500 for $75-$90 depending on deals and the 4500 for $60-$75. That’s a solid deal for those chips, I wish we had more of these super cheap good ones.
will WIN11 support the R5-2600? if so, would you be willing to deal with a wonky OS interaction, or just switching over to Linux? 5600 is definitely a superior/affordable cpu.
That's often the case with GN. Was the same with 10400, which didn't fully deliver what you might expect from it, but once it reached its post launch pricing, it was actually the best value chip on the market. The thing is that 10400f is actually haunting both of these chips. It's comparable in gaming to 5500, but costs as much as 4500. So they're only really good if you already have an old Ryzen system and want to upgrade the CPU cheaply, without swapping the motherboard.
Does it make any difference with lower-end graphics cards ? e.g. GTX 1660 Super ? I would like to know if their performance only makes itself felt on more powerful graphics cards ? I ask because most tests take into account the top GPUs that maybe 2% of PC users have (at least that's what the Steam statistics indicate. After all, no one who with a sound mind buys a RTX 3080 TI will buy such a CPU!!! LOGICAL!!! But probably not for "everyone"....
Thanks for the video bro, but I buy the ryzen 5 4500 because it is very cheap with an rtx 2060, so I have the question if that will have bottleneck? :c I hope someone can clear my doubt, thank you very much
alder lake chips in Mexico are 1/4 more expensive than Ryzen 5000 and the motherboards are more expensive as well so at least here is an easy decision in favor of AMD.
With current Blac Friday pricing of the 4500, it costs half as much as a 5600 shipped (inc. taxes), its actually cheaper new than any zen 1000/2000/3000 6 core on 2nd hand markets. could argue that a zen1 user could upgrade to 4500 and sell their old one for an almost free upgrade. its a very sensible choice in that case. Yes a 5600 is way faster in any scenario, but is it twice as fast with a budget gpu? (not a 3080ti) well, no. I really wish more reviews would emphasize that outside of countries with a Microcenter these parts hold different values.
It is, for older systems, i have bought it for my old emulation machine and it`s ok, i replaced old r3 1300x so it`s significant boost and board use pci 3.0 so i don`t lose there ither. Undervolted to 1.2v and overclocked slightly to 4.3GHz don`t go over 66c and gives 4130 in r20 cinebench, not bad at all.
My brain health is at least 10 times better than your`s badass keyboard warrior, if you are too mentally challenged to figure why it`s good buy it`s just your problem.
With the 5600 going down to $129 at newegg / amazon last week on sale there is no reason to consider 5500/4500. I found a sealed new in the box 5600G for $80 and at that price for the bedroom MediaPC I decided to bite. Not much of an upgrade over a 3600/GT1030 DDR5 but less power by a little and I can sell the 3600 / 1030 for likely more than $80. Less heat in the case with my passive 1030.
Thanks ,, I feel like a idiot lol , I was under the feeling the 5500 would support PCI-e 4.0 as the 5600 does , its okay though as I have my older Msi-B450A-Pro Max , a Ryzen 5 2600 and my old MSI Rx 480 , 16Gb of G-Skill 3600 ddr4 , should give me a boost . Will wait till Zen 4 arrives to build a real Pc then :)
Hey dude, the temp differences are going to be differences in the sensors. This die isn't going to be more concentrated than Intel. Alder Lake is "Intel 7" and has about the same density as TSMC N7. If anything the 5500 might run a little cooler over the die since the iGPU is disabled, regardless of what sensors suggest. The fact that you don't feel more heat is the tell tale on this. If any of these come with coolers, that should easily be good enough.
I have a little hard time seeing the hate against the R5 4500, I can see it's the slowest CPU to game on, but is there a game it cannot play? For me it also comes down to the price. And what too use it for. Right now in Denmark the 12100 its around 33% more expensive than the R5 4500. At one point i considered to buy on and use in my secondary rig. An old athlon with ddr3. So that would have been a major update anyway 😁
idk what he's talking about, i replaced my old amd a10 with a 5500 with a full on ram and motherboard swap too and it cost me less than an i5 12400f for me
I would pass even on the 5600x. I only see the 5700x as a worthy upgrade there, and that's if you need the extra cores. Otherwise just stick it out until Zen 4 or beyond, you won't get much from one gen to another.
The perfermence of 4100 and 4500 are poor compare to their competitor at their MSRP. AMD should charge $50 USD for 4100, $60 USD for 4500 and $80 for 5500. I do remember AMD once have the great 1600AF for $80 around 2019. That is a great 6-cores CPU pair with cheap b450 board. Same story for the 4500 and 5500. they need to price right
Nope. Its not a better experience. U-version are multi-core CPUs better suited for clustered multitasking with lightweight applications like Word, excel, photoshop, web browser.. running it altogether. As soon as you load it with something heavy, like video rendering, animation etc. it farts fire. Better get a HX version, if your intending to keep workoad for longer interval...
