AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-6700

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i7-6700 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Core i7-6700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700 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 i7-6700. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6700 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5500U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.