Intel Core i7-4900MQ 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

2307 points

3147 points

36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3862 points

4989 points

29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1859 points

2595 points

39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1784 points

2494 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.97 points

64.47 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3402 points

3685 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1123 points

1171 points

4% 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

2.80 GHz

Identical

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.3 GHz

13% 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

659th 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

2013 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 i7-4900MQ vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7520U is faster than the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Core i7-4900MQ and Ryzen 5 7520U have the same clock speed. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7520U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-4900MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.