Intel Core i5-11400H vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Core i5-11400H vs Ryzen 9 9955HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9955HX is faster than the Core i5-11400H. Despite this, the Core i5-11400H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-11400H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11400H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11400H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9955HX CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11400H. The Ryzen 9 9955HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-11400H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.