AMD Ryzen 7 5800H vs Intel Core i7-11390H

Ryzen 7 5800H vs Core i7-11390H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800H beats the Core i7-11390H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11390H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11390H. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800H has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-11390H. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11390H. The Core i7-11390H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800H thanks to a slightly 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 5800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.