AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i5-7500

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 912.90
$ 73.80
$ 839.10 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4897 points
99% significantly better overall score
2458 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6449 points
41% slightly better gaming score
4565 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4413 points
135% significantly better multitasking score
1872 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4297 points
139% significantly better heavy workload score
1797 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4322 points
88% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
2294 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

118.70 points
148% significantly higher Blender score
47.70 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5138 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3409 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1359 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1243 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5383 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3533 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1391 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1283 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
300% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz
3.4 GHz
88% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

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

8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

356th of 1,089
637th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i5-7500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700U beats the Core i5-7500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700U has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-7500 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-7500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i5-7500. 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.

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