AMD Ryzen 5 7520U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4 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

3147 points
39% slightly better overall score
2261 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4989 points
37% slightly better gaming score
3641 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2595 points
41% slightly better multitasking score
1833 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2494 points
41% slightly better heavy workload score
1759 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.47 points
94% significantly higher Blender score
33.09 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
33% slightly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.80 GHz
3.2 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

518th of 1,089
671st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

LPDDR5
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 5 7520U vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7520U performs better than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1090T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7520U. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. The Phenom II X6 1090T also has significantly more 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 7520U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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