Intel Core i5-11400 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 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

5682 points

5% slightly better overall score

5368 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8370 points

26% slightly better gaming score

6635 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4847 points

4972 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4675 points

4862 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

144.07 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

130.22 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7262 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6209 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1960 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1630 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

79% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

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

480 KiB

512 KiB

6% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly 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

291st of 1,118

318th of 1,118

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11400 vs Ryzen 7 7730U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400 is faster than the Ryzen 7 7730U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7730U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 7730U has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11400. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7730U has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 7730U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7730U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7730U outputs less heat than Core i5-11400 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 7 7730U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11400. The Ryzen 7 7730U also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.