amd ryzen 5 5600u vs intel core i7 1255u

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 5600U (Laptop) 6-cores against Intel Core i7 1255U (Laptop) 10-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 5600U and Intel Core i7 1255U
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5600U
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
Advantages of Intel Core i7 1255U
  • Newer released 1 years later
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • 11% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.7 GHz vs 4.2 GHz)
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1769
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3434
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
15474
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
1664
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
6778

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 5 5600u and core i7 1255u

General

AMD Ryzen 5 5600U Intel Core i7 1255U
Vendor AMD Intel
Released January 7 2021 January 4 2022
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Cezanne U Alder Lake-U
Socket FP6 FCBGA1744
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 5600U Intel Core i7 1255U
Cores 6 10
Threads 12 12
Base Frequency 2.3 GHz 1.7 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.2 GHz 4.7 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 1.25 MB (per core)
L3 Cache 16 MB (shared) 12 MB (shared)

Power

AMD Ryzen 5 5600U Intel Core i7 1255U
Fabrication process 7 nm Intel 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 W 15 W
Max. temperature 105°C 100°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 5 5600U Intel Core i7 1255U
Memory types DDR4-3200 DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267
Memory Size GB 64 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 5 5600U Intel Core i7 1255U
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.25 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 5600U Intel Core i7 1255U
Official site AMD Ryzen 5 5600U official page Intel Core i7 1255U official page
PCI Express Version 3 4
PCI Express Lanes 20

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i7 1255U or AMD Ryzen 5 5600U?