AMD Ryzen 7 5800H vs Intel Core i5-11400

Ryzen 7 5800H vs Core i5-11400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11400 beats the Ryzen 7 5800H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800H has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11400. The Ryzen 7 5800H also has slightly 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 7 5800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.