Intel Core i3-1125G4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2810 points

5931 points

111% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4729 points

7969 points

68% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2253 points

5267 points

133% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2154 points

5102 points

136% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.54 points

141.88 points

211% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4219 points

7589 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1435 points

1833 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4001 points

7653 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1417 points

1872 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

568th of 1,089

256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i3

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-1125G4 vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500 performs better than the Core i3-1125G4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1125G4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-1125G4 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1125G4. A Core i3-1125G4 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-1125G4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.