AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Pentium Dual E2140

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Pentium Dual E2140 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Pentium Dual E2140 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Dual E2140 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Pentium Dual E2140 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Dual E2140. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Dual E2140. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium Dual E2140

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.