Intel Core i5-10500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 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

4526 points

2% slightly better overall score

4404 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6446 points

6525 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3934 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

3759 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3805 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

3630 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

124.71 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

86.99 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

387th of 1,089

400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-10500 vs Ryzen 5 7430U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-10500 performs better than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U. Also, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7430U outputs less heat than Core i5-10500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7430U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10500. The Ryzen 5 7430U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.