AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Ryzen 7 2700U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 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

43% significantly better overall score

2327 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

41% slightly better gaming score

3661 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

1930 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

1854 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

45.25 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points

27% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

3603 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2409 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

794 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2392 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

792 points

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

59% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 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

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

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

653rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Ryzen 7 2700U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1500X performs better than the Ryzen 7 2700U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 2700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 2700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 2700U 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.

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.