Intel Core i7-5500U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Core i7-5500U vs Ryzen 5 7430U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7430U beats the Core i7-5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 7430U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-5500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-5500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has a significantly 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7430U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5500U. The Ryzen 5 7430U also has significantly more 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 i7-5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.