AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Core i7-5820K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-5820K

Price

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$ 1963.00

$ 429.95

$ 1533.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points

4081 points

59% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points

5494 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points

3634 points

75% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points

3527 points

77% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points

95.66 points

105% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2494 points

5383 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

867 points

1134 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points

5467 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points

1180 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.3 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

833% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,089

428th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Core i7-5820K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-5820K performs better than the Ryzen 7 3700U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-5820K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 3700U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5820K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 3700U. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5820K CPU because of its 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 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.