AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Pentium N4200

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Pentium N4200 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Pentium N4200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 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 Pentium N4200. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Pentium N4200. It also has more threads than the Pentium N4200. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5500U thanks to a 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.