Intel Core i3-1215U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i3 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3288 points

4404 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5718 points

6525 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2595 points

3759 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2480 points

3630 points

46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

57.10 points

86.99 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.2 GHz

2.30 GHz

91% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4.5 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

10 MiB

16 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

501st of 1,089

400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-1215U vs Ryzen 5 7430U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7430U is faster than the Core i3-1215U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1215U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 7430U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7430U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1215U. In terms of cache, the Core i3-1215U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-1215U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-1215U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.