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AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Ryzen 5 7520U

40 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
VS
33 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 5 7520U
AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.8 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with 8-cores against the 2.8 GHz Ryzen 5 7520U with 4-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments (1)

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7520U and 5700U
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
  • More powerful Radeon RX Vega 8 integrated graphics: 1.9 vs 0.5 TFLOPS
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • Supports up to 32 GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • 26% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 1605 vs 1270 points
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 7520U
  • Newer - released 1 year and 9 months later
  • More modern manufacturing process – 6 versus 7 nanometers

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Ryzen 7 5700U
vs
Ryzen 5 7520U

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench 2026 (Single) 393 -
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 1943 -
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Ryzen 7 5700U +26%
1605
Ryzen 5 7520U
1270
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Ryzen 7 5700U +56%
6562
Ryzen 5 7520U
4219
File compression 504.6 MB/sec 394.8 MB/sec
Clang compilation 43.4 Klines/sec 27 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 138 pages/sec 91.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 208.6 Mpixels/sec 127.6 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 132.7 pages/sec 114.6 pages/sec
Background blur 32.1 images/sec 23 images/sec
Photo processing 55.9 images/sec 38.3 images/sec
Ray tracing 13.2 Mpixels/sec 7.38 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 1164 & 1108 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Ryzen 7 5700U +72%
15369
Ryzen 5 7520U
8925
Integer math 58.9 GOps/sec 30.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math 32.6 GOps/sec 14.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 29M Primes/sec 20M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 23.3M Strings/sec 14.2M Strings/sec
Data encryption 12.3 GBytes/sec 6.3 GBytes/sec
Data compression 215.9 MBytes/sec 132 MBytes/sec
Physics 612 Frames/sec 432 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 13.4B Matrices/sec 6B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 5261 & 1843 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Ryzen 7 5700U +136%
120.67
Ryzen 5 7520U
51.1

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 19.4 PPW 18.6 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 262.5 PPW 281.3 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 614.8 PPW 595 PPW
Blender / Watt 4.83 PPW 3.41 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-29 (Mike)Geekbench 6 CPU1519 / 5184
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-30 (Ryan A.)Cinebench 2026393 / 1943
πŸ“˜ 2024-11-30 (Hp Ireland)Cinebench 202473 / 486
Add View all (3)
AMD Ryzen 5 7520U
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-13 (kot99)Geekbench 6 CPU1444 / 4688
Add View all (1)

Specifications

Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 7 5700U and Ryzen 5 7520U

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Released January 12, 2021 September 22, 2022
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Zen 2 (Lucienne) Zen 2 (Mendocino)
Integrated GPU Radeon RX Vega 8 Radeon 610M
Rival Equivalent - Intel Core i7 1165G7 -
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (158th and 174th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 8 4
P-Threads 16 8
Base Frequency (P) 1.8 GHz 2.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.3 GHz 4.3 GHz
Total
Total Cores 8 4
Total Threads 16 8
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 18x 28x
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 8MB (shared) 4MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 7 nm 6 nm
TDP (PL1) 10-25 W (configurable) 15 W
Socket FP6 FP6
Peak Temperature 105Β°C 95Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Radeon RX Vega 8 Radeon 610M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1900 MHz 1900 MHz
Shading Units 512 128
TMUs 32 8
ROPs 8 4
Execution Units 8 2
TGP 25 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Ryzen 7 5700U +280%
1.9 TFLOPS
Ryzen 5 7520U
0.5 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 610M compared to RX Vega 8

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266		 - LPDDR5-5500
Max. Memory Size 32 GB 16 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site AMD Ryzen 7 5700U official page AMD Ryzen 5 7520U official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 12 4

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Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 5 7520U or Ryzen 7 5700U?
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Reviewer April 5, 2024 at 04:01 PM
The AMD Ryzen 7 5700U has about 1.80 Ghz normal and 4.00 Ghz overclocked, which makes the Ryzen 7 5700U better than the Ryzen 5 7520U
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