Intel Core i5-1235U vs AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 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

3900 points

5419 points

38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5787 points

6732 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3361 points

5010 points

49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3239 points

4902 points

51% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.73 points

130.22 points

76% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9208 points

11490 points

24% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5632 points

6209 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1824 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1630 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.3 GHz

2 GHz

53% significantly higher clock speed

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

15 W

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

800 KiB

56% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

4 MiB

60% 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

442nd of 1,089

302nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7

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 i5-1235U vs Ryzen 7 7730U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7730U 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1235U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7730U has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7730U has more threads than the Core i5-1235U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7730U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7730U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-1235U. 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 i5-1235U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.