Intel Core i7-5500U vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800H

Core i7-5500U vs Ryzen 7 6800H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 6800H 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 7 6800H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-5500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5500U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 6800H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5500U. Also, the Ryzen 7 6800H has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 6800H CPU because of its 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 Ryzen 7 6800H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5500U. The Ryzen 7 6800H 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.