Intel Core i5-9500T vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Core i5-9500T vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9500T beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-9500T has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Indeed, the Core i5-9500T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has more threads than the Core i5-9500T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9500T. Also, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Core i5-9500T thanks to a significantly 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. For instance, the Core i5-9500T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.