AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-6300U

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-6300U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Core i5-6300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-6300U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-6300U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6300U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6300U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. 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.

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.