AMD Ryzen 5 4500U vs Intel Core i7-7500U

Ryzen 5 4500U vs Core i7-7500U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4500U is faster than the Core i7-7500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 4500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-7500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4500U. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 4500U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.