Intel Core i7-10710U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 6 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

3046 points

3147 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4440 points

4989 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2617 points

0.85% slightly better multitasking score

2595 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2519 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

2494 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

70.12 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

64.47 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4079 points

5149 points

26% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz

2.80 GHz

154% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

2 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

533rd of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 August

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-10710U vs Ryzen 5 7520U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-10710U performs better than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10710U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10710U. Despite this, the Core i7-10710U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10710U. Despite this, the Core i7-10710U 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 i7-10710U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.