Intel Core i5-4300U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7530U

Core i5-4300U vs Ryzen 5 7530U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7530U beats the Core i5-4300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 7530U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-4300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4300U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-4300U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7530U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7530U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-4300U. The Ryzen 5 7530U also has significantly 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 i5-4300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.