AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i7-1185G7

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-1185G7

Price

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$ 79.99

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$ 1277.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

10% slightly better overall score

3014 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

0.31% slightly better gaming score

5168 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

2395 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

2286 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

60.09 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points

6383 points

38% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

5178 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

1697 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

5187 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

1724 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.8 GHz

29% 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

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

538th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i7-1185G7 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1500X is faster than the Core i7-1185G7. Despite this, the Core i7-1185G7 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Core i7-1185G7 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.