intel core i5 1240u vs amd ryzen 5 5500u

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We compared two CPUs Intel Core i5 1240U (Laptop) 10-cores against AMD Ryzen 5 5500U (Laptop) 6-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 Intel Core i5 1240U and AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Advantages of Intel Core i5 1240U
  • Newer released 1 years later
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • Consumes up to 64% less energy than the AMD Ryzen 5 5500U – 9 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
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Benchmarks

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

Specifications

Full technical specification of core i5 1240u and ryzen 5 5500u

General

Intel Core i5 1240U AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Vendor Intel AMD
Released January 4 2022 January 7 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Alder Lake-U Lucienne U
Socket Intel BGA 1781 FP6
Integrated GPU Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Performance

Intel Core i5 1240U AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Cores 10 6
Threads 12 12
Base Frequency 1.1 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.4 GHz 4 GHz
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 1.25 MB (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 12 MB (shared) 8 MB (shared)

Power

Intel Core i5 1240U AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Fabrication process Intel 7 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 9 W 25 W
Max. temperature 100°C 105°C

Memory support

Intel Core i5 1240U AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Memory types LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267 DDR4-4266
Memory Size 64 GB 64 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

Intel Core i5 1240U AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Integrated Graphics Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 900 MHz MHz
Shading Units 640 448
TMUs 40 28
ROPs 20 7
Execution Units 80
TGP 15 W 0 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.41 TFLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS

Misc

Intel Core i5 1240U AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Official site Intel Core i5 1240U official page AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page
PCI Express Version 4 3
PCI Express Lanes 14

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U or Intel Core i5 1240U?