Comparison of AMD Ryzen 9 5900H and Intel Core i5-11500

Comparison of AMD Ryzen 9 5900H and Intel Core i5-11500 [S]ave

Attribute	Intel Core i5-11500 ×	AMD Ryzen 9 5900H ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Core i5	AMD Ryzen
Model	Intel Core i5-11500	AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	6	8
Frequency (GHz)	2.7	3.1
CPU Threads	12	16
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.6	4.6
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	3.7	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
VP8	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
AV1	Decode	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
AVC	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 750	AMD Radeon 8 Graphics (Renoir)
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.35	1.75
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	1.3	-
Generation	12	9
DirectX Version	12	12
Execution units	32	8
Shader	256	512
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	-	2
Max. displays	3	3
GPU Release date (year)	2021	2020
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-3200	DDR4-3200
Max. Memory (GB)	128	64
PCIe lanes	20	12
PCIe version	4.0	3.0
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2021	2021
Technology (Nm)	14	7
Socket	LGA 1200	AM4
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-v sev
L3-Cache (MB)	12	16
L2-Cache (MB)	3	4
Architecture	Rocket Lake	Cezanne (Zen 3)
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	100	95
TDP (PL2) (W)	154	-
TDP up (W)	-	54
TDP (PL1) (W)	65	45
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	666	1,792
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,560	1,497
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	7,244	8,849