AMD Ryzen 5 1500X 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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$ 79.99

$ 1658.01 significantly less expensive

$ 1738.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

61% significantly better overall score

2070 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

36% slightly better gaming score

3797 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

74% significantly better multitasking score

1588 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

74% significantly better heavy workload score

1528 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points

30% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

2855 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

39.14 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2896 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1058 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3044 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

1119 points

0.90% 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

3.5 GHz

40% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

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

16 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th 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 1500X vs Core i5-7300HQ comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1500X 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 1500X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300HQ. Also, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-7300HQ 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1500X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-7300HQ. The Ryzen 5 1500X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.