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MediaTek Dimensity 9300+ vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

MediaTek Dimensity 9300+

Rank 2 - 43 %

Intel Core i7-5500U

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

MediaTek Dimensity 9300+

Rank 2 - 26 %

Intel Core i7-5500U

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

2,189

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

956

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

7,135

2C / 4T · 2.90 GHz

1,933

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

1,619

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

681

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

6,789

2C / 4T · 2.90 GHz

1,737

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

ARM Immortalis-G720 MC12

2,400

Intel HD Graphics 5500

365

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 9300+	Intel Core i7-5500U
Family	Mediatek Dimensity (38)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	MediaTek Dimensity 9300 (2)	Intel Core i 5000U (16)
Architecture	Cortex-X4 / -A720	Broadwell U
Technology	4 nm	14 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1168
Predecessor	MediaTek Dimensity 9300	Intel Core i7-4500U
Successor		Intel Core i7-6500U

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 9300+	Intel Core i7-5500U
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	2 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	1x Cortex-X4 3.40 GHz	2x 2.40 - 3.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	3x Cortex-X4 2.85 GHz
Core Cluster 3:	4x Cortex-A720 1.60 - 2.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	18.00 MB	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 9300+	Intel Core i7-5500U
GPU name	ARM Immortalis-G720 MC12	Intel HD Graphics 5500
GPU frequency	1.00 GHz	0.30 - 0.95 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 /	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	0	3
Max. GPU Memory		16 GB
Technology	4 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q4/2023	Q1/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 9300+	Intel Core i7-5500U
AI hardware	Mediatek APU
AI specifications	MediaTek APU 790 @ 33 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 9300+	Intel Core i7-5500U
Memory	LPDDR5X-9600 (76.8 GB/s)	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		2.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth		6.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 9300+	Intel Core i7-5500U
TDP	12.5 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 9300+	Intel Core i7-5500U
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Android	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	Armv9-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q4/2023	Q1/2015
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of MediaTek Dimensity 9300+ is 4.5 stars (60 ratings), while Intel Core i7-5500U has received 3.5 stars (24 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

MediaTek Dimensity 9300+
8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-5500U
2C / 4T · 2.40 - 3.00 GHz

★★★★★