AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-7660U

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i7-7660U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U is faster than the Core i7-7660U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7660U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-7660U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7660U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7660U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. 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.

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.