AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5700U has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5700U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.