Intel Core i7-4930MX vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel Core X-series 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

2463 points
3147 points
27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4049 points
4989 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2003 points
2595 points
29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1926 points
2494 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

50.02 points
64.47 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3648 points
3685 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1251 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1171 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.20 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed
2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.3 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

57 W
15 W
280% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

636th of 1,089
518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
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

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-4930MX vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4930MX is faster than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4930MX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7520U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7520U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4930MX. Despite this, the Core i7-4930MX 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 i7-4930MX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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