amd ryzen 5 5500u vs intel core i7 8565u

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U (Laptop) 6-cores against Intel Core i7 8565U (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 8565U
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • Newer released 3 years later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14
Advantages of Intel Core i7 8565U
  • Newer released 2018 years later
  • Consumes up to 40% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U – 15 vs 25 Watt
  • 13% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.6 GHz vs 4 GHz)

Benchmarks

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

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 5 5500u and core i7 8565u

General

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 8565U
Vendor AMD Intel
Released January 7 2021 August 21 2018
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Lucienne U Whiskey Lake-U
Socket FP6 FCBGA1528
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel® UHD Graphics for 8th Generation Intel® Processors

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 8565U
Cores 6 4
Threads 12 8
Base Frequency 2.1 GHz 1.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4 GHz 4.6 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
L3 Cache 8 MB (shared) 8 MB (shared)

Power

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 8565U
Fabrication process 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 W 15 W
Max. temperature 105°C 100°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 8565U
Memory types DDR4-4266 DDR4
Memory Size 64 GB 64 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 37.5 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 8565U
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel® UHD Graphics for 8th Generation Intel® Processors
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.15 MHz
Shading Units 448 192
TMUs 28 24
ROPs 7 3
TGP 0 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS
0.38 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 8565U
Official site AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page Intel Core i7 8565U official page
PCI Express Version 3 3
PCI Express Lanes 16

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i7 8565U or AMD Ryzen 5 5500U?