Intel Core i5-10500T vs AMD Ryzen 3 5425U

Core i5-10500T vs Ryzen 3 5425U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10500T is faster than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5425U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-10500T has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Indeed, the Core i5-10500T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 5425U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 5425U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10500T. Also, the Ryzen 3 5425U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 5425U outputs less heat than Core i5-10500T thanks to a 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 i5-10500T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.