Intel Core i7-7500U vs AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 2093.00
$ 1056.02
$ 1036.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1350 points
4888 points
262% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2679 points
6523 points
143% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1002 points
4398 points
338% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

962 points
4293 points
346% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.43 points
131.31 points
460% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
8
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz
35% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.5 GHz
28% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

857th of 1,089
357th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-7500U vs Ryzen 7 5825U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5825U is faster than the Core i7-7500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5825U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7500U. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5825U has 8 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-7500U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7500U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5825U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5825U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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