AMD launched the Ryzen 5 5500X3D a few months ago, but it hasn’t received much attention due to its exclusivity to the Latin American market. Positioned as a budget-friendly chip, it builds upon the standard Ryzen 5 5500 with the addition of 3D V-Cache, giving it a notable boost in gaming performance. However, it’s not just fast in that area, as new benchmarks suggest that the 5500X3D also holds its own in productivity workloads, proving to be more versatile than expected.
Spotted by Gray, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D just appeared on Geekbench for the first time, where it delivered some decisive results. In single-core performance, it scored 1,932 points—roughly on par with the standard 5500 CPU. The real gains show up in multicore tests, where the 5500X3D came in nearly 12% faster than its non-X3D counterpart. Keep in mind this is the only Geekbench entry for the 5500X3D so far, whereas the 5500 has multiple runs to reference. To keep the comparison fair, we matched it against the highest Linux-based result for the 5500, since the 5500X3D was also on Linux.
