AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Intel Core i5-11500

Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Core i5-11500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X beats the Core i5-11500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11500. The Core i5-11500 outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1900X thanks to a 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 Threadripper 1900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.