AMD Ryzen 7 7730U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 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

72% significantly better overall score

3147 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6732 points

34% slightly better gaming score

4989 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5010 points

93% significantly better multitasking score

2595 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4902 points

96% significantly better heavy workload score

2494 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.22 points

101% significantly higher Blender score

64.47 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11490 points

123% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

5149 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6209 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3685 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1630 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1171 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

2.80 GHz

40% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

100% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

302nd of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 7 7730U vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7730U beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 7730U has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7520U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 7730U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7730U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 7730U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The Ryzen 7 7730U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7730U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.