AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-11500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-11500

Price

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$ 844.78

$ 199.00

$ 645.78 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

5262 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

7888 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

4465 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

4309 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3688 points

8307 points

125% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

141.62 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points

7631 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points

1954 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

7239 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

2003 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.7 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.6 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

314th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-11500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11500 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11500 CPU because of its 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.