AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core i7-1255U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HS beats the Core i7-1255U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1255U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1255U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900HS has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has more threads than the Core i7-1255U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900HS thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5900HS also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.