AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core i5-11320H

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i5-11320H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HX beats the Core i5-11320H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11320H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11320H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11320H. The Core i5-11320H outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900HX thanks to a slightly 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 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.