AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Core i7-5700HQ

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i7 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

2653 points

2748 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4214 points

4553 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2184 points

2217 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2097 points

2125 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.99 points

55.31 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3185 points

3230 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

955 points

1113 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3133 points

3227 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points

1100 points

14% 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

3.2 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 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

47 W

38% slightly 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

579th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

5th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Core i7-5700HQ benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5700HQ beats the Ryzen 5 1400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1400 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5700HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-5700HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5700HQ outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1400 thanks to a slightly 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 Ryzen 5 1400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5700HQ. 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.