Intel Core i5-7600K 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

2899 points

3147 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5366 points

7% slightly better gaming score

4989 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2207 points

2595 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2115 points

2494 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

61.33 points

64.47 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4238 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3685 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1522 points

29% 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

3.8 GHz

35% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.3 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

91 W

15 W

506% 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

553rd 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

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7600K vs Ryzen 5 7520U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7600K is faster than the Ryzen 5 7520U. 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 Core i5-7600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Core i5-7600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7520U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-7600K. Despite this, the Core i5-7600K 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 i5-7600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.