AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 10 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

17% slightly better overall score

3722 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

13% slightly better gaming score

5577 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

3201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

3089 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

75.98 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8565 points

9628 points

12% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.7 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

800 KiB

108% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

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

459th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i7-1255U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Core i7-1255U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1255U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1255U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1255U. 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 info from our database shows that the Core i7-1255U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Core i7-1255U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.