AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Intel Core i7-1270P

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 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

5930 points
12% slightly better overall score
5276 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7967 points
6% slightly better gaming score
7506 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5266 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
4632 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5101 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score
4500 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
115.33 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
63% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.8 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
28 W
132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
960 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
9 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
18 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th of 1,089
313th 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 i7-1270P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1270P beats the Ryzen 5 5500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1270P has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Core i7-1270P has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1270P. Despite this, the Core i7-1270P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1270P 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-1270P has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500. The Core i7-1270P also has slightly more L3 cache.

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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