The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U is a mobile processor with 6 cores, launched in January 2020. It is part of the Ryzen 5 lineup, using the Zen 2 (Renoir) architecture with Socket FP6. Ryzen 5 4500U has 11 MB of L3 cache and operates at 2.3 GHz by default, but can boost up to 4 GHz, depending on the workload. AMD is building the Ryzen 5 4500U on a 7 nm production process using 9,800 million transistors. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at AMD, but at the foundry of TSMC. The multiplier is locked on Ryzen 5 4500U, which limits its overclocking capabilities.
With a TDP of 25 W, the Ryzen 5 4500U consumes only little energy. AMD's processor supports DDR4 memory with a dual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 4266 MT/s, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. For communication with other components in the machine, Ryzen 5 4500U uses a PCI-Express Gen 3 connection. This processor features the Radeon Graphics 384SP integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the Ryzen 5 4500U, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) will run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications. Besides AVX, AMD is including the newer AVX2 standard, too, but not AVX-512.