Intel Core i7-4710HQ vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 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

2150 points

3147 points

46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3517 points

4989 points

41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1748 points

2595 points

48% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1675 points

2494 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.71 points

64.47 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3089 points

3685 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1009 points

1171 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

2.80 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.3 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W

15 W

213% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

696th of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-4710HQ vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4710HQ performs better than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4710HQ.

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 i7-4710HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.