Intel Core i5-11500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i5-11500 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11500 is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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 i5-11500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.