AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i7-9700T

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i7-9700T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600U is faster than the Core i7-9700T. Despite this, the Core i7-9700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700T has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Indeed, the Core i7-9700T has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600U has more threads than the Core i7-9700T. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700T. Despite this, the Core i7-9700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700T CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.