Intel Core i5-11260H vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Core i5-11260H vs Ryzen 5 5500GT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500GT is faster than the Core i5-11260H. Despite this, the Core i5-11260H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-11260H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500GT that has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11260H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i5-11260H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5500GT CPU because of its 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 i5-11260H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.