AMD Ryzen 7 7730U vs Ryzen 5 7520U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.0 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 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.

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
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating

Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7520U and 7730U
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 7730U
  • Has 12288 KB larger L3 cache size
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • 44% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 1884 vs 1310 points
  • 5% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.5 GHz vs 4.3 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 7520U
  • More modern manufacturing process – 6 versus 7 nanometers
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Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench R23

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1443
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
10768

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
1884
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
7543
File compression 733.4 MB/sec 392.5 MB/sec
Clang compilation 62.5 Klines/sec 23 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 145.5 pages/sec 93 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 266.7 Mpixels/sec 129.2 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 153.6 pages/sec 115.6 pages/sec
Background blur 16.1 images/sec 22.4 images/sec
Photo processing 58.5 images/sec 39.6 images/sec
Ray tracing 16.1 Mpixels/sec 7.31 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2]

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3190
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
18841
Integer math 76.8 GOps/sec 32.8 GOps/sec
Floating point math 39.8 GOps/sec 15.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 49M Primes/sec 21M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 24.9M Strings/sec 15.4M Strings/sec
Data encryption 14.7 GBytes/sec 6.9 GBytes/sec
Data compression 229.8 MBytes/sec 145.5 MBytes/sec
Physics 809 Frames/sec 462 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 14.9B Matrices/sec 6.5B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4]

Specifications

Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 7 7730U and Ryzen 5 7520U

General

Vendor AMD AMD
Released January 5, 2023 September 22, 2022
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Zen 3 (Cezanne) Zen 2 (Mendocino)
Integrated GPU Radeon RX Vega 8 Radeon 610M

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 8 4
P-Threads 16 8
Base Frequency (P) 2.0 GHz 2.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.5 GHz 4.3 GHz
Total
Total Cores 8 4
Total Threads 16 8
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 20x 28x
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 16MB (shared) 4MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 10.7 billions -
Fabrication process 7 nm 6 nm
TDP (PL1) 15 W 15 W
Socket FP6 FP6
Peak temperature 95°C 95°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Radeon RX Vega 8 Radeon 610M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 1500 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2000 MHz 1900 MHz
Shading Units 512 128
TMUs 32 8
ROPs 8 4
Execution Units 8 2
TGP 65 W 15 W
Max. Resolution 3840x2160 - 60 Hz -
iGPU FLOPS
1.13 TFLOPS
0.49 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory types - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4x-4267
- LPDDR5-5500
Memory Size 64 GB 16 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support Yes No

Misc

Official site AMD Ryzen 7 7730U official page AMD Ryzen 5 7520U official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 4

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Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 5 7520U or Ryzen 7 7730U?
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