Intel Core i7-7820X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Core i7-7820X vs Ryzen 5 7430U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7820X performs better than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-7820X has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Indeed, the Core i7-7820X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7430U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7820X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 5 7430U outputs less heat than Core i7-7820X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-7820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.