AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 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
50% significantly better overall score
3147 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5587 points
11% slightly better gaming score
4989 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4432 points
70% significantly better multitasking score
2595 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4341 points
74% significantly better heavy workload score
2494 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.00 points
98% significantly higher Blender score
64.47 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5186 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3685 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points
1171 points
14% 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
7% slightly higher clock speed
2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.3 GHz
16% 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
100% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

372nd of 1,089
518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 7 1700 vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 1700 performs better than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 1700 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7520U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 1700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The Ryzen 7 1700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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