AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i7-7700T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 79.99
$ 310.01 significantly less expensive
$ 390.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points
23% slightly better overall score
2711 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
10% slightly better gaming score
4704 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
29% slightly better multitasking score
2148 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score
2063 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
73.61 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3108 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points
1119 points
0.45% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
3974 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
1259 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
3.8 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

519th of 1,121
608th of 1,121

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
7th Generation Core i7

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
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i7-7700T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1500X beats the Core i7-7700T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7700T. Despite this, the Core i7-7700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-7700T 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700T. The Ryzen 5 1500X also has significantly 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.

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