AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-10710U

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i7-10710U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Core i7-10710U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10710U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10710U. 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10710U. Despite this, the Core i7-10710U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U.

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.