AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i9-7940X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-7940X

Price

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$ 912.90

$ 300.00

$ 612.90 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4897 points

5222 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6449 points

4% slightly better gaming score

6170 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4413 points

4938 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4297 points

4896 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

118.70 points

261.54 points

120% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5138 points

9233 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1359 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1299 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5383 points

10511 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1391 points

1444 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz

3.1 GHz

72% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

Identical

4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

1000% significantly lower TDP

165 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

896 KiB

75% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

25 MiB

212% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

356th of 1,089

324th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i9-7940X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7940X is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7940X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7940X 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 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.