AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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

10010 points

226% significantly better overall score

3062 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11884 points

144% significantly better gaming score

4858 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9348 points

270% significantly better multitasking score

2525 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9141 points

276% significantly better heavy workload score

2426 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

263.24 points

308% significantly higher Blender score

64.47 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

18086 points

251% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

5149 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15051 points

308% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3685 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2723 points

132% significantly 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

4.20 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

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

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

96 MiB

2299% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

89th of 1,104

541st of 1,104

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs Ryzen 5 7520U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is faster than the Ryzen 5 7520U. 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 7800X3D 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. Also, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 7800X3D thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 7800X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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 7800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.