AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Core i5-10210U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 149.99
$ 1489.01 significantly less expensive
$ 1639.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4766 points
117% significantly better overall score
2196 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5654 points
48% significantly better gaming score
3797 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4465 points
156% significantly better multitasking score
1739 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4372 points
163% significantly better heavy workload score
1661 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.00 points
252% significantly higher Blender score
36.33 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5049 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2911 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

987 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
948 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5186 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3069 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points
1196 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
87% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

379th of 1,102
692nd of 1,102

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2019 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 1700 vs Core i5-10210U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 1700 performs better than the Core i5-10210U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10210U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10210U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10210U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 1700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10210U. Despite this, the Core i5-10210U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10210U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 1700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 1700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10210U. The Ryzen 7 1700 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 7 1700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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