AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i7-5700HQ

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i7 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

7430 points
170% significantly better overall score
2748 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points
91% significantly better gaming score
4553 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points
215% significantly better multitasking score
2217 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points
223% significantly better heavy workload score
2125 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points
256% significantly higher Blender score
55.31 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8659 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3230 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1113 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points
177% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3227 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1100 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed
2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
31% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
47 W
38% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089
579th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop
5th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Core i7-5700HQ benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700G performs better than the Core i7-5700HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5700HQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700G has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-5700HQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5700HQ. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5700HQ. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5700HQ outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5700G thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5700HQ. The Ryzen 7 5700G also has significantly more 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 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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