Intel Core i7-6700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel 6th 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

3117 points
3147 points
0.96% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4991 points
0.04% slightly better gaming score
4989 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2559 points
2595 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2457 points
2494 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.31 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
64.47 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4207 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3685 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1320 points
12% 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

3.4 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed
2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.3 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% 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

8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

523rd of 1,089
518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
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 i7-6700 vs Ryzen 5 7520U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6700 beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Core i7-6700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700. Despite this, the Core i7-6700 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 i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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