Intel Core i7-7820X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

Compare Intel Core X-series 8 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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AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

Price

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$ 349.99

$ 706.03 significantly less expensive

$ 1056.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5865 points

19% slightly better overall score

4888 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7275 points

11% slightly better gaming score

6523 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5393 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

4398 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5258 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

4293 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.28 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

131.31 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7802 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6417 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1416 points

1718 points

21% 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

3.6 GHz

79% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.5 GHz

4% 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

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

11 MiB

16 MiB

45% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

262nd of 1,089

357th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-7820X vs Ryzen 7 5825U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7820X performs better than the Ryzen 7 5825U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5825U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7820X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5825U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5825U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5825U 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.