AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-11390H

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i7-11390H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Core i7-11390H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11390H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-11390H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11390H. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11390H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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.