Intel Core i7 10510U vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.8 GHz Intel Core i7 10510U with 4-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
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 5500U and 10510U
Advantages of Intel Core i7 10510U
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR4-2666 RAM
  • 23% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.9 GHz vs 4 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • More powerful Radeon RX Vega 7 integrated graphics: 1.6 vs 0.4 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14 nanometers
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Newer - released 1 year and 5 months later
  • 9% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 1526 vs 1401 points

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

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

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
6005
File compression 223.5 MB/sec 504.2 MB/sec
Clang compilation 16.8 Klines/sec 32.5 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 71 pages/sec 103.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 106 Mpixels/sec 151.5 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 128.2 pages/sec 124.6 pages/sec
Background blur 17.6 images/sec 27.2 images/sec
Photo processing 27.9 images/sec 49.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 6.26 Mpixels/sec 8.97 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 822 & 599 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
12609
Integer math 23.1 GOps/sec 44.4 GOps/sec
Floating point math 13.9 GOps/sec 25.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 22M Primes/sec 26M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 10.9M Strings/sec 18.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 2.1 GBytes/sec 10.2 GBytes/sec
Data compression 81.3 MBytes/sec 171.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 467 Frames/sec 526 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 5.2B Matrices/sec 10.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4643 & 6029 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
91.95

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 15.5 PPW 16.2 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 225 PPW 240.2 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 424.3 PPW 504.4 PPW
Blender / Watt 2.8 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 i7 10510U
No benchmark results yet
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

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i7 10510U and AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released August 21, 2019 January 12, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Comet Lake Zen 2 (Lucienne)
Model number i7-10510U -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics 620 Radeon RX Vega 7
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i5 1135G7
Successor - - AMD Ryzen 5 7520U
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#165th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 6
P-Threads 8 12
Base Frequency (P) 1.8 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.9 GHz 4 GHz
Total
Total Cores 4 6
Total Threads 8 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 18x 21x
Bus Bandwidth 4 GT/s -
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 256K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 8MB (shared) 8MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 14 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 15 W 10-25 W (configurable)
Socket BGA-1528 FP6
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 105Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 620 Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1150 MHz 1800 MHz
Shading Units 192 448
TMUs 24 28
ROPs 3 8
Execution Units 24 7
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
0.4 TFLOPS
1.6 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-2666
- LPDDR3-2133
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 41.66 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i7 10510U official page AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 16 12

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Comments

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