Intel Core i5-1235U vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core CPU vs AMD 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Price

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$ 687.07

$ 145.00

$ 542.07 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3900 points

5020 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5787 points

6843 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3361 points

4448 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3239 points

4307 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3379 points

5545 points

64% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.73 points

141.41 points

91% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

233% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

176% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

Identical

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

800 KiB

108% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

3 MiB

20% slightly more L2 cache

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

442nd of 1,089

345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-1235U vs Ryzen 5 5500GT comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-1235U performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Indeed, the Core i5-1235U has 10 cores compared to 3 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500GT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-1235U. The Ryzen 5 5500GT also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-1235U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.