AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i5-10310U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-10310U

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 1380.01 significantly less expensive

$ 1460.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

56% significantly better overall score

2131 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

42% slightly better gaming score

3649 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

1700 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

64% significantly better heavy workload score

1625 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

44.38 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points

48% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

3094 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

105% significantly higher clock speed

1.7 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

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

698th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i5-10310U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1500X performs better than the Core i5-10310U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10310U 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 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10310U. Despite this, the Core i5-10310U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10310U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.