Intel Core i7-8665U 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

2271 points

3147 points

38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3777 points

4989 points

32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1836 points

2595 points

41% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1758 points

2494 points

41% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.82 points

64.47 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

2729 points

5149 points

88% 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

1.9 GHz

2.80 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

669th 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

2019 May

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 i7-8665U vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8665U performs better than the Ryzen 5 7520U. 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8665U.

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 i7-8665U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.