AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX vs Intel Core i7-5500U. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 7045 Intel Core i 5000U
• Family
  Ryzen Intel Core i7
• Form Factor
  Laptops / Desktops -
• Generation
  6 5
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Series
  Ryzen 7000 Series -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.5 GHz 2.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  16x Zen 4 -
• CPU Cores
  16 2
• CPU Threads
  32 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Max. Boost Clock
  5.4 GHz -
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  5.4 GHz 3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 2.9 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  12 11.2
• Execution units
  2 24
• Generation
  9 8
• GPU Frequency
  2200 MHz 300 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon 610M Intel HD Graphics 5500
• GPU Turbo
  2200 MHz 950 MHz
• Graphics Cores
  2 -
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 16 GB
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q1/2015
• Shader
  128 192
• Technology
  6 nm 14 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  Decode No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-5500U and AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  128 GB -
• Memory Bandwidth
  83.2 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR5 DDR3-1600
• PCIe
  PCIe 5.0 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 12
• PCIe version
  - 2.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and Intel Core i7-5500U Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Configurable TDP
  55-75 W -
• Default TDP
  55 W -
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  100 °C -
• TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)
  55 W -
• TDP up
  75 W -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  - 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and Intel Core i7-5500U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Dragon Range (Zen 4) Broadwell U
• Chip design
  Chiplet -
• Codename
  Dragon Range -
• Documents
  Technical data sheet -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  16 MB -
• L3-Cache
  64 MB 4 MB
• Operating systems
  Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux -
• Part Number
  100-000000870 -
• Release date
  2023-02-28 Q1/2015
• Socket
  FL1 BGA 1168
• Technology
  TSMC 5nm FinFET 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d