Ryzen 5 1500X vs Ryzen 7 4700U comparison
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 4700U is faster than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.
With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 4700U has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1500X has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 4700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 4700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 4700U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 4700U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 4700U.
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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