AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-8300H

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-8300H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Core i5-8300H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8300H 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 i5-8300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8300H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8300H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8300H 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 Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8300H. Despite this, the Core i5-8300H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.