AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-3770

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i7-3770 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Core i7-3770 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3770. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3770. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3770 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 i7-3770. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.