AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-6400

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-6400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Core i5-6400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6400 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-6400 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5500U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6400. The Ryzen 5 5500U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.