Intel Core i5-10500H vs AMD Ryzen Z2 Go

Core i5-10500H vs Ryzen Z2 Go specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10500H beats the Ryzen Z2 Go in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen Z2 Go has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-10500H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen Z2 Go. Indeed, the Core i5-10500H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen Z2 Go. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z2 Go. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10500H. Despite this, the Core i5-10500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z2 Go outputs less heat than Core i5-10500H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.