AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel CoreT i5-1340P

Ryzen 5 1500X vs CoreT i5-1340P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the CoreT i5-1340P beats the Ryzen 5 1500X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the CoreT i5-1340P has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed than the CoreT i5-1340P. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the CoreT i5-1340P has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the CoreT i5-1340P.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.