Intel Core i7-8665U vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Core i7-8665U vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U beats the Core i7-8665U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-8665U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8665U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has a slightly 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.

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 i7-8665U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.