AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Celeron N4020

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Celeron N4020 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Celeron N4020 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4020 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Celeron N4020 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron N4020. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4020. The Celeron N4020 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5500U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.