AMD Ryzen 5 5560U vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Ryzen 5 5560U vs Core i3-1220P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5560U beats the Core i3-1220P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1220P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5560U has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5560U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P. Despite this, the Core i3-1220P has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5560U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-1220P CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i3-1220P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U. The Core i3-1220P also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 5560U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.