AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640U

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

4985 points
5252 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6530 points
7216 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4496 points
4621 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4354 points
4465 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.35 points
172.19 points
97% significantly 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

2.20 GHz
3.50 GHz
59% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
6 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

350th of 1,089
317th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Ryzen 5 7640U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7640U 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7640U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7640U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Ryzen 5 7640U 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 Microsoft Surface Edition has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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