amd ryzen 5 5500u vs intel core i7 1160g7

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U (Laptop) 6-cores against Intel Core i7 1160G7 (Laptop) 4-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between AMD Ryzen 5 5500U and Intel Core i7 1160G7
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • Newer released 1 years later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 10
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR4-4266 RAM
Advantages of Intel Core i7 1160G7
  • Newer released 2020 years later
  • Consumes up to 40% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U – 15 vs 25 Watt
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 9% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.4 GHz vs 4 GHz)
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
7134
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
2795
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
13303
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
1320
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
4961

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 5 5500u and core i7 1160g7

General

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 1160G7
Vendor AMD Intel
Released January 7 2021 September 2 2020
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Lucienne U Tiger Lake UP4
Socket FP6 FCBGA1598
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 1160G7
Cores 6 4
Threads 12 8
Base Frequency 2.1 GHz 1.2 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4 GHz 4.4 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 96K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 1.25 MB (per core)
L3 Cache 8 MB (shared) 12 MB (shared)

Power

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 1160G7
Fabrication process 7 nm 10 nm SuperFin
Power consumption (TDP) 25 W 15 W
Max. temperature 105°C 100°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 1160G7
Memory types DDR4-4266 DDR4
Memory Size 64 GB 32 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 1160G7
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.1 MHz
Shading Units 448 768
TMUs 28 48
ROPs 7 24
Execution Units 96
TGP 0 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS
1.69 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 1160G7
Official site AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page Intel Core i7 1160G7 official page
PCI Express Version 3 4
PCI Express Lanes

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i7 1160G7 or AMD Ryzen 5 5500U?