Intel Core i3-N305 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Core i3 AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  Intel Core i N300 AMD Ryzen 5000U
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  13 4

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  1.80 GHz 2.10 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.

• GPU name
  Intel UHD Graphics 770 AMD Radeon 7 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU frequency
  0.30 GHz 1.80 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.30 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  32 7
• Shader
  256 448
• Max. GPU Memory
  64 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  11 9
• Technology
  10 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2021 Q1/2020

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5500U and Intel Core i3-N305. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR5-5600 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i3-N305 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 25 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i3-N305 and Intel Core i3-N305, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  10 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  BGA FP6
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  6.00 MB 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Alder Lake N Lucienne (Zen 2)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• Release date
  Q4/2022 Q1/2021