AMD Ryzen 7 1700X 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

4528 points

45% significantly better overall score

3113 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5692 points

15% slightly better gaming score

4941 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4151 points

61% significantly better multitasking score

2567 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4054 points

64% significantly better heavy workload score

2467 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

131.79 points

104% significantly higher Blender score

64.47 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5573 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3685 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points

1171 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.3 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

394th of 1,099

530th of 1,099

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

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1700X beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7520U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 1700X 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 1700X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 1700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The Ryzen 7 1700X 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 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.