AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 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

$ 199.99
$ 487.08 significantly less expensive
$ 687.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5158 points
32% slightly better overall score
3900 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6248 points
7% slightly better gaming score
5787 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4785 points
42% slightly better multitasking score
3361 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4674 points
44% significantly better heavy workload score
3239 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4136 points
22% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
3379 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.70 points
75% significantly higher Blender score
73.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5343 points
5801 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1083 points
1884 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5518 points
5632 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1116 points
1824 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
146% significantly higher clock speed
1.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
4.4 GHz
7% 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
800 KiB
4% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
60% significantly more L2 cache
2.5 MiB

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

332nd of 1,089
442nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Core i5-1235U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 2700 is faster than the Core i5-1235U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1235U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1235U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 2700 has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 2700 has more threads than the Core i5-1235U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 2700 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 2700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-1235U. The Ryzen 7 2700 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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