AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i5-10210U

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i5-10210U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700U beats the Core i5-10210U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10210U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10210U. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700U has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-10210U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10210U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10210U. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5700U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10210U. The Ryzen 7 5700U also has slightly 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 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.