AMD Ryzen 5 7520U vs Intel Core i3-1315U

Ryzen 5 7520U vs Core i3-1315U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1315U beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-1315U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1315U. Despite this, the Core i3-1315U has a slightly higher turbo speed. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i3-1315U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.