Intel Core i7-5700HQ vs AMD Ryzen 3 7320U

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 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

2748 points
2905 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4553 points
0.51% slightly better gaming score
4530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2217 points
2414 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2125 points
2315 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.31 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
42.57 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3227 points
3589 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points
1176 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.7 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed
2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.1 GHz
17% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
Identical
256 KiB

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

6 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

579th of 1,089
550th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 May
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1600
LPDDR5

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 i7-5700HQ vs Ryzen 3 7320U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 7320U performs better than the Core i7-5700HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-5700HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Core i7-5700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 7320U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 7320U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5700HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-5700HQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 7320U.

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 i7-5700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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