AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-7500T

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-7500T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Core i5-7500T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7500T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-7500T has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7500T. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7500T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-7500T 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 i5-7500T. The Ryzen 5 5500U also has slightly 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.