AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i7-10710U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i7 6 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

3338 points

9% slightly better overall score

3046 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

16% slightly better gaming score

4440 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

2617 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

2519 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

70.12 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points

12% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

4079 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

218% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.7 GHz

27% 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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

533rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

10th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2019 August

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 i7-10710U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10710U beats the Ryzen 5 1500X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10710U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1500X has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10710U. Despite this, the Core i7-10710U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10710U 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 1500X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10710U. The Ryzen 5 1500X 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 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.