Intel Core i5-9500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Core i5-9500 vs Ryzen 5 7520U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-9500 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-9500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7520U has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has more threads than the Core i5-9500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-9500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. Also, the Core i5-9500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Core i5-9500 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 slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9500. Despite this, the Core i5-9500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.