Intel Core i5-11500H vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5529 points

5932 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7840 points

7972 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4827 points

5268 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4665 points

5102 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

125.39 points

141.88 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6177 points

7653 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1783 points

1872 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

3.6 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

290th of 1,089

256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11500H vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11500H is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11500H. Despite this, the Core i5-11500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11500H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-11500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.