AMD Ryzen 7 7730U vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5419 points

3% slightly better overall score

5252 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6732 points

7672 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5010 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

4530 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4902 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

4376 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.22 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

120.41 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

2.1 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

4.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

7 MiB

75% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

302nd of 1,089

316th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 7730U vs Core i5-13420H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7730U beats the Core i5-13420H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13420H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 7 7730U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 7730U. Also, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7730U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7730U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13420H.

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 7730U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.