AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-12400

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-12400

Price

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$ 844.78

$ 153.99

$ 690.79 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

7038 points

61% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

9694 points

52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

6210 points

66% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

6013 points

68% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3688 points

5938 points

61% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

164.62 points

82% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points

8911 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points

2130 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

8875 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

2207 points

70% 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

2.5 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.4 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

18 MiB

125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

190th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-12400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12400 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.