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Intel Core i3 1220P vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

44 out of 100
Intel Core i3 1220P
VS
38 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Intel Core i3 1220P
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.5 GHz Intel Core i3 1220P with 10-cores against the 2.1 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with 6-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 5500U and 1220P
Advantages of Intel Core i3 1220P
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR5-4800 RAM
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 38% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2105 vs 1526 points
  • Newer - released 1 year and 2 months later
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
  • 10% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.4 GHz vs 4 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • More powerful Radeon RX Vega 7 integrated graphics: 1.6 vs 1.1 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 10 nanometers

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core i3 1220P
vs
Ryzen 5 5500U

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Core i3 1220P +38%
2105
Ryzen 5 5500U
1526
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Core i3 1220P +15%
6905
Ryzen 5 5500U
6005
File compression 438.3 MB/sec 504.2 MB/sec
Clang compilation 57.1 Klines/sec 32.5 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 139.1 pages/sec 103.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 203 Mpixels/sec 151.5 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 211.9 pages/sec 124.6 pages/sec
Background blur 28.5 images/sec 27.2 images/sec
Photo processing 54.3 images/sec 49.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 12.3 Mpixels/sec 8.97 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 569 & 599 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Core i3 1220P +42%
3404
Ryzen 5 5500U
2390
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Core i3 1220P +24%
15637
Ryzen 5 5500U
12609
Integer math 54.8 GOps/sec 44.4 GOps/sec
Floating point math 37.6 GOps/sec 25.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 37M Primes/sec 26M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 23.1M Strings/sec 18.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 12 GBytes/sec 10.2 GBytes/sec
Data compression 189.4 MBytes/sec 171.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 785 Frames/sec 526 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 10.3B Matrices/sec 10.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 604 & 6029 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Core i3 1220P
84.65
Ryzen 5 5500U +9%
91.95

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 15.3 PPW 16.2 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 246.6 PPW 240.2 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 558.5 PPW 504.4 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.02 PPW 3.68 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i3 1220P
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-04 (Ridho Galih)Cinebench 202491 / 427
πŸ“˜ 2025-01-22 (tomasrs6)Cinebench 202491 / 379
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-11 (Akhil)Cinebench 202468 / 404
πŸ“˜ 2025-06-06 (DON'T_SYBAU ❀️)Geekbench 6 CPU1515 / 6409
πŸ“˜ 2025-06-04 (Micro_review)Geekbench 6 CPU1526 / 6005
πŸ“˜ 2025-05-14 (Josh Passed)Cinebench 202469 / 315
πŸ“˜ 2024-05-30 (Wildan)Cinebench 202468 / 367
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i3 1220P and AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released February 23, 2022 January 12, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Alder Lake Zen 2 (Lucienne)
Model number i3-1220P -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics (64EU) Radeon RX Vega 7
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 3 5300U - Intel Core i5 1135G7
Successor - - AMD Ryzen 5 7520U
Intel CPU rating (#192nd place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#165th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 2 6
P-Threads 4 12
Base Frequency (P) 1.5 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.4 GHz 4 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 -
E-Threads 8 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.1 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.3 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 10 6
Total Threads 12 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 15x 21x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 1280K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 12MB (shared) 8MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 10 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 20-28 W (configurable) 10-25 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 64 W -
Socket BGA-1744 FP6
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 105Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics (64EU) Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1100 MHz 1800 MHz
Shading Units 512 448
TMUs 32 28
ROPs 16 8
Execution Units 64 7
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core i3 1220P
1.1 TFLOPS
Ryzen 5 5500U +45%
1.6 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon RX Vega 7 compared to UHD Graphics (64 EU)

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-4800
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR5-5200
- LPDDR4x-4267		 - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i3 1220P official page AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 12

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Comments

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