AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 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
8878 points
165% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
10890 points
110% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
8202 points
195% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
8008 points
200% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points
7356 points
97% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
244.42 points
278% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points
17214 points
273% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
11003 points
198% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
2353 points
112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.80 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
5.1 GHz
37% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
54 W
20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
8 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089
116th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Ryzen 7 7840HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7840HS 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 7840HS has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X. Also, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7840HS outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a slightly 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 7 7840HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1500X. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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