Intel Core i7-1255U vs AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 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

3722 points
5419 points
45% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5577 points
6732 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3201 points
5010 points
56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3089 points
4902 points
58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.98 points
130.22 points
71% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9628 points
11490 points
19% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
25% slightly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.7 GHz
2 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

800 KiB
56% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

459th of 1,089
302nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-1255U vs Ryzen 7 7730U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7730U beats the Core i7-1255U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1255U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1255U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7730U has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7730U has more threads than the Core i7-1255U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7730U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 7730U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-1255U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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