AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-10700

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i7-10700 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700 beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10700 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Indeed, the Core i7-10700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-10700 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 i7-10700. Despite this, the Core i7-10700 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.