Intel Core i5-11600KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Core i5-11600KF vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11600KF beats the Ryzen 5 5500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500. Also, the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Core i5-11600KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 5500 also has slightly 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 i5-11600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.