AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 10 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

1% slightly better overall score

4282 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

3% slightly better gaming score

6145 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

3732 points

0.05% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

3606 points

0.81% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

92.33 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8565 points

4% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

8199 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

1.6 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

Identical

15 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

800 KiB

108% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

6.5 MiB

116% 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

412th 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 i5-1245U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1245U beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1245U 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1245U. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1245U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Core i5-1245U 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.