Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Core i7-11700K vs Ryzen 5 5500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700K beats the Ryzen 5 5500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. According to our data, the Core i7-11700K and Ryzen 5 5500 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500. 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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.