AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Intel Core i5-11500

Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Core i5-11500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800HS beats the Core i5-11500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11500. Despite this, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 7 5800HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.