AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-1240P

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

3% slightly better overall score

4218 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

6354 points

0.27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

3645 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

0.68% slightly better heavy workload score

3553 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3688 points

4569 points

23% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

110.04 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8565 points

11494 points

34% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

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

86% significantly lower TDP

28 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

960 KiB

150% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

5 MiB

66% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

417th 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-1240P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U is faster than the Core i5-1240P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1240P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1240P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1240P. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-1240P CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1240P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Core i5-1240P also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.