AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Core i5-11300H

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Core i5-11300H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 1700X performs better than the Core i5-11300H. Despite this, the Core i5-11300H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 1700X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11300H. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-11300H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11300H. The Core i5-11300H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 1700X thanks to a 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 7 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.