Intel Core i5-11320H vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Core i5-11320H vs Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U performs better than the Core i5-11320H. Despite this, the Core i5-11320H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11320H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11320H. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U outputs less heat than Core i5-11320H 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 i5-11320H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.