AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core i7-4720HQ

Ryzen 7 5800U vs Core i7-4720HQ benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800U is faster than the Core i7-4720HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4720HQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800U has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-4720HQ that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4720HQ. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4720HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5800U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4720HQ 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 5800U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4720HQ. The Ryzen 7 5800U 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 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.