Intel Core i5-7500 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

2458 points

3147 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4565 points

4989 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1872 points

2595 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1797 points

2494 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.70 points

64.47 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3533 points

3685 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1283 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1171 points

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

3.4 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.3 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% 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

637th 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

DDR4-2133

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7500 vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7520U performs better than the Core i5-7500. Despite this, the Core i5-7500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Core i5-7500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7500. Despite this, the Core i5-7500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U.

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. For instance, the Core i5-7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.