AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X vs Core i7-1255U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1255U beats the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1255U has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has more threads than the Core i7-1255U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X also has slightly 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 PRO 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.