AMD EPYC 7543P vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Compare AMD EPYC 7003 Series 32 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1895.00
$ 687.07
$ 1207.93 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3463 points
3900 points
12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4960 points
5787 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2982 points
3361 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2866 points
3239 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.01 points
5% slightly higher Blender score
73.73 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15287 points
171% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5632 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1609 points
1824 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

32
220% significantly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

64
433% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
115% significantly higher clock speed
1.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.4 GHz
18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

225 W
15 W
1399% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

8
300% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

2048 KiB
156% significantly more L1 cache
800 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
540% significantly more L2 cache
2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

256 MiB
2033% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

488th of 1,089
442nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

EPYC 7003 Series
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

EPYC 7543P vs Core i5-1235U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1235U beats the EPYC 7543P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 7543P in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the EPYC 7543P has significantly more cores with 32 cores compared to the Core i5-1235U that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1235U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the EPYC 7543P has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than EPYC 7543P thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the EPYC 7543P has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-1235U. The EPYC 7543P also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 EPYC 7543P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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