AMD Ryzen 5 5560U vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Ryzen 5 5560U vs Ryzen 5 5500GT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5560U beats the Ryzen 5 5500GT in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500GT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5560U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5560U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5500GT 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, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 5500GT 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.