Intel Core i7-8550U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel 8th 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

2085 points

3147 points

50% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3523 points

4989 points

41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1671 points

2595 points

55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1597 points

2494 points

56% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points

64.47 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

2914 points

5149 points

76% significantly higher Cinebench R23 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

1.8 GHz

2.80 GHz

55% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.3 GHz

7% 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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

Identical

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

706th of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8550U vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8550U beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

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 Ryzen 5 7520U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U.

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 i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.