AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Core i5-7300HQ

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-7300HQ

Price

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$ 417.00

$ 1321.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1738.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2653 points

28% slightly better overall score

2070 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4214 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3797 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2184 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

1588 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2097 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

1528 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3397 points

18% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

2855 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.99 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

39.14 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3185 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2896 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

955 points

1058 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3133 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3044 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points

1119 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

601st of 1,089

708th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Core i5-7300HQ specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1400 performs better than the Core i5-7300HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300HQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7300HQ. Despite this, the Core i5-7300HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-7300HQ outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1400 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 1400 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-7300HQ. The Ryzen 5 1400 also has slightly 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 Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.