AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-10500T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-10500T

Price

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$ 844.78

$ 99.99

$ 744.79 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

9% slightly better overall score

3986 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

11% slightly better gaming score

5707 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

3461 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

3351 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

80.54 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

4686 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

0.93% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1285 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

2.3 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

35 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

437th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-10500T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Core i5-10500T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10500T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10500T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-10500T CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.