Intel Core i5-11500H vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Core i5-11500H vs Ryzen 9 9955HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11500H beats the Ryzen 9 9955HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9955HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-11500H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500H. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11500H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11500H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9955HX CPU because of its slightly 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 i5-11500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.