Intel Core i5-1235U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 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

3900 points
4404 points
12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5787 points
6525 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3361 points
3759 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3239 points
3630 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.73 points
86.99 points
17% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.3 GHz
2.30 GHz
77% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

800 KiB
108% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
3 MiB
20% 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

442nd of 1,089
400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-1235U vs Ryzen 5 7430U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7430U is faster than the Core i5-1235U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1235U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Indeed, the Core i5-1235U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7430U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7430U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7430U has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-1235U. The Ryzen 5 7430U also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-1235U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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