amd ryzen 5 5500u vs intel core i7 8650u

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U (Laptop) 6-cores against Intel Core i7 8650U (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 8650U
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • Newer released 4 years later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR4-4266 RAM
Advantages of Intel Core i7 8650U
  • Newer released 2017 years later
  • Consumes up to 40% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U – 15 vs 25 Watt
  • 5% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.2 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)
2462
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 8650u

General

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 8650U
Vendor AMD Intel
Released January 7 2021 August 21 2017
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Lucienne U Kaby Lake Refresh
Socket FP6 FC-BGA1356
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel UHD Graphics 620

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 8650U
Cores 6 4
Threads 12 8
Base Frequency 2.1 GHz 1.9 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4 GHz 4.2 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 8650U
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 8650U
Memory types DDR4-4266 DDR4
Memory Size 64 GB 32 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 37.5 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Intel Core i7 8650U
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel UHD Graphics 620
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 8650U
Official site AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page Intel Core i7 8650U official page
PCI Express Version 3 3
PCI Express Lanes 12

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i7 8650U or AMD Ryzen 5 5500U?