AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 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

4496 points

2% slightly better overall score

4404 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

6525 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

3759 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

3630 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

86.99 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

3.2 GHz

39% slightly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.3 GHz

19% 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

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Ryzen 5 7430U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600 beats the Ryzen 5 7430U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7430U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and 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 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.