AMD Ryzen 5 7430U vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 6 core CPU vs AMD 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

4404 points
4985 points
13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6525 points
6530 points
0.08% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3759 points
4496 points
19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3630 points
4354 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

86.99 points
87.35 points
0.40% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
Identical
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

400th of 1,089
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 5 7430U vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7430U performs better than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7430U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 7430U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7430U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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