AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i5-11500

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. Despite this, the Core i5-11500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. 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.

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 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.