AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Core i7-1255U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700 beats the Core i7-1255U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1255U has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 2700 that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 2700 has more threads than the Core i7-1255U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 2700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. 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.