AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i7-1255U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600U beats the Core i7-1255U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1255U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-1255U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-1255U.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.