Intel Core i5-8250U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Core i5-8250U vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7520U is faster than the Core i5-8250U. Despite this, the Core i5-8250U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8250U. Despite this, the Core i5-8250U 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. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.