AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i7-9700T

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i7-9700T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Core i7-9700T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700T has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than the Core i7-9700T. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700T. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700T CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.