AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5931 points
59% significantly better overall score
3722 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7969 points
42% significantly better gaming score
5577 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points
64% significantly better multitasking score
3201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points
65% significantly better heavy workload score
3089 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points
86% significantly higher Blender score
75.98 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
111% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.7 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
800 KiB
108% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th of 1,089
459th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Core i7-1255U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500 performs better than the Core i7-1255U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1255U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1255U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Core i7-1255U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-1255U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-1255U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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