Intel Core i5-5300U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 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

1153 points

3147 points

172% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2272 points

4989 points

119% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

860 points

2595 points

201% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

826 points

2494 points

201% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.25 points

64.47 points

165% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1572 points

3685 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

825 points

1171 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.80 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.9 GHz

4.3 GHz

48% significantly 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

128 KiB

256 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

2 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

909th of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i5-5300U vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7520U performs better than the Core i5-5300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-5300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-5300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-5300U. Also, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a significantly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 7520U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-5300U. The Ryzen 5 7520U 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 i5-5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.