AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-9400T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points
51% significantly better overall score
2871 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points
35% slightly better gaming score
4694 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points
61% significantly better multitasking score
2315 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points
61% significantly better heavy workload score
2214 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points
46% significantly higher Blender score
61.59 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3990 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1154 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
100% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
133% significantly lower TDP
35 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
9 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089
556th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-9400T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Core i5-9400T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9400T in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9400T. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-9400T 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 i5-9400T. Despite this, the Core i5-9400T has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U.

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.

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