AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Core i5-11400H

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 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

4724 points
5137 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5587 points
7413 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4432 points
4443 points
0.25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4341 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
4295 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3899 points
5385 points
38% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.00 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
107.17 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5049 points
6310 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

987 points
1799 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5186 points
6415 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points
1824 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
2.69 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.5 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
576 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
7.5 MiB
87% 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

372nd of 1,089
333rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
-

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 i5-11400H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400H is faster than the Ryzen 7 1700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11400H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400H. Despite this, the Core i5-11400H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11400H 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 Core i5-11400H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 1700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 1700 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-11400H.

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 7 1700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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