Intel Core i7-7800X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7530U

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 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

4493 points
4604 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5755 points
6298 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4089 points
0.15% slightly better multitasking score
4083 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3970 points
0.35% slightly better heavy workload score
3956 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.00 points
5% slightly higher Blender score
104.53 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6131 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5620 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1344 points
1634 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
75% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.5 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
15 W
833% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
56% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

391st of 1,089
380th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-7800X vs Ryzen 5 7530U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7530U performs better than the Core i7-7800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7800X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7530U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7530U outputs less heat than Core i7-7800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-7800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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