Intel Core i5-8265U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Core i5-8265U vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7520U is faster than the Core i5-8265U. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores 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 i5-8265U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7520U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8265U. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U 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. Indeed, the Core i5-8265U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.