Intel Core i5 1240P vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 1240P with 12-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.

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
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating

Key Differences

What are the key differences between 5500U and 1240P
Advantages of Intel Core i5 1240P
  • Has 6 more physical cores
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR5-4800 RAM
  • Newer - released 1-year and 2-months later
  • Has 4096 KB larger L3 cache size
  • 50% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2182 vs 1457 points
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
  • 10% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.4 GHz vs 4 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 10 nanometers
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Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench R23

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1510
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
9374

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
2182
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
8822
File compression 744.1 MB/sec 447.7 MB/sec
Clang compilation 57.6 Klines/sec 35.7 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 242 pages/sec 114.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 267.9 Mpixels/sec 180.1 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 197.4 pages/sec 114.9 pages/sec
Background blur 35.1 images/sec 27.5 images/sec
Photo processing 83 images/sec 40.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 13.1 Mpixels/sec 9.84 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2]

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3304
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
17335
Integer math 65.4 GOps/sec 46.4 GOps/sec
Floating point math 45.5 GOps/sec 26.8 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 48M Primes/sec 26M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 22.9M Strings/sec 19.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 12 GBytes/sec 10.8 GBytes/sec
Data compression 202.3 MBytes/sec 179.3 MBytes/sec
Physics 945 Frames/sec 541 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 11.8B Matrices/sec 11.1B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4]

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i5 1240P 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 i5-1240P -
Integrated GPU Iris Xe Graphics (80EU) Radeon RX Vega 7

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 6
P-Threads 8 12
Base Frequency (P) 1.7 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.4 GHz 4 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 -
E-Threads 8 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.2 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.3 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 12 6
Total Threads 16 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 17x 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 100°C 105°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Iris Xe Graphics (80EU) Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1300 MHz 1800 MHz
Shading Units 640 448
TMUs 40 28
ROPs 20 7
Execution Units 80 -
TGP 15 W 10-45 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.41 TFLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS

Memory Support

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

Misc

Official site Intel Core i5 1240P 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

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