Intel Core i5-1240P vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500H

Core i5-1240P vs Ryzen 5 5500H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1240P is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1240P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1240P. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-1240P CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5500H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1240P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5500H. The Core i5-1240P also has significantly 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 i5-1240P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.