AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core i5-11500H

Ryzen 7 5800U vs Core i5-11500H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11500H beats the Ryzen 7 5800U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11500H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11500H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U. Also, the Core i5-11500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11500H 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 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.