AMD Ryzen 5 7530U vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 6 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 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

4604 points
5252 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6298 points
7672 points
21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4083 points
4530 points
10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3956 points
4376 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.53 points
120.41 points
15% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
2.1 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
4.6 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
7 MiB
133% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

380th of 1,089
316th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 7530U vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7530U is faster than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13420H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7530U has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7530U. Also, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7530U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13420H.

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 7530U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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