AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i7-11390H

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i7-11390H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600U beats the Core i7-11390H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-11390H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-11390H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11390H. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11390H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.