AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i3-10100F

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i3-10100F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Core i3-10100F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10100F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores than the Core i3-10100F. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-10100F. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10100F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-10100F has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-10100F CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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