Ryzen 5 1500X vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition 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.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.
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.
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