AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-7800X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-7800X

Price

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$ 844.78

$ 355.63

$ 489.15 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

4493 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

10% slightly better gaming score

5755 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

4089 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

3970 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3688 points

6534 points

77% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

110.00 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points

5789 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1269 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

6131 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

1344 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.5 GHz

66% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

Identical

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

833% significantly lower TDP

140 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

25 MiB

212% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

391st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i7-7800X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7800X performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-7800X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.