AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-10850H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 844.78
$ 3387.22 significantly less expensive
$ 4232.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points
6% slightly better overall score
4087 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points
11% slightly better gaming score
5668 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
3607 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
3489 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points
94.57 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points
5364 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points
1430 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points
5383 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points
1451 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.7 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5.1 GHz
27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
200% significantly lower TDP
45 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
12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089
427th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
10th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2933

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 i7-10850H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Core i7-10850H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10850H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-10850H 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 i7-10850H. Despite this, the Core i7-10850H 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.

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