AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 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

6% slightly better overall score

3147 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

3% slightly better gaming score

4989 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

2595 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

2494 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

0.23% slightly higher Blender score

64.47 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points

5149 points

11% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

3685 points

0.11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

1171 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.3 GHz

16% 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

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Ryzen 5 7520U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1500X beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. 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.