Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 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

2070 points

3147 points

52% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3797 points

4989 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1588 points

2595 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1528 points

2494 points

63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.14 points

64.47 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3044 points

3685 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1119 points

1171 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

2.80 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.3 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

Identical

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

708th of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7300HQ vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7300HQ beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 7520U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7300HQ. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7520U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-7300HQ. Despite this, the Core i5-7300HQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U.

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. For instance, the Core i5-7300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.