Intel Core i7-10870H vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Core i7-10870H vs Ryzen 5 5500GT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10870H beats the Ryzen 5 5500GT in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10870H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10870H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5500GT 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 Ryzen 5 5500GT has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10870H. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-10870H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.