Intel Core i5-11320H vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX

Core i5-11320H vs Ryzen 9 7940HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7940HX beats the Core i5-11320H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11320H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7940HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-11320H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11320H. A Core i5-11320H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7940HX 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 i5-11320H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.