Ryzen 7 1700X vs Ryzen 5 7640U benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7640U beats the Ryzen 7 1700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700X in all gaming tests too.
With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7640U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7640U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7640U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 1700X. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7640U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 1700X. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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