AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i5-11500

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6179 points
17% slightly better overall score
5262 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7639 points
7888 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5707 points
27% slightly better multitasking score
4465 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5585 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score
4309 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6228 points
8307 points
33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.71 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
141.62 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
Identical
4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
85% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

240th of 1,089
314th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core i5-11500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HS beats the Core i5-11500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11500. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11500. A Ryzen 9 5900HS 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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