Intel Core i7-4700HQ vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Core i7-4700HQ vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U is faster than the Core i7-4700HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4700HQ in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4700HQ. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4700HQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4700HQ. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U outputs less heat than Core i7-4700HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-4700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.