AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points

3147 points

23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points

4989 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points

2595 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points

2494 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points

64.47 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points

3685 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points

1171 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.80 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.3 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 3700U is faster than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 3700U. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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.