Intel Core i5-7300U vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Core i5-7300U vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U beats the Core i5-7300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-7300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7300U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-7300U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.