AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-11300H

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-11300H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U is faster than the Core i5-11300H. Despite this, the Core i5-11300H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11300H. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-11300H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11300H. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11300H 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.