AMD Ryzen 5 5560U vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Ryzen 5 5560U vs Core i5-1245U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-1245U performs better than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5560U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1245U 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 i5-1245U. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1245U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5560U. The Core i5-1245U 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.