AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-8365U

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-8365U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Core i5-8365U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8365U 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 i5-8365U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8365U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8365U. 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.