AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-1235U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U is faster than the Core i5-1235U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1235U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U.

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.