Intel Core i7-6700HQ 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

2465 points

3147 points

27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3937 points

4989 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2027 points

2595 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1949 points

2494 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.39 points

64.47 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3434 points

3685 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1099 points

1171 points

6% 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

2.6 GHz

2.80 GHz

7% 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

45 W

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

635th 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

DDR4-2133

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6700HQ vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700HQ 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6700HQ.

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 i7-6700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.