AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Core i5-7200U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i5 2 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
$ 1756.01 significantly less expensive
$ 1956.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5158 points
315% significantly better overall score
1241 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6248 points
154% significantly better gaming score
2452 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4785 points
417% significantly better multitasking score
924 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4674 points
426% significantly better heavy workload score
887 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.70 points
481% significantly higher Blender score
22.30 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5343 points
306% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1316 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1083 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
508 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
300% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
300% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
32% slightly higher turbo speed
3.1 GHz

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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

332nd of 1,089
889th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Core i5-7200U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 2700 is faster than the Core i5-7200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7200U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 2700 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-7200U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7200U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7200U. Also, the Ryzen 7 2700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-7200U 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.

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

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