AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-1355U

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i7-1355U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Core i7-1355U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1355U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1355U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Indeed, the Core i7-1355U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500U. 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 i7-1355U. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-1355U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Core i7-1355U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.