AMD Ryzen 7 2700U vs Intel Core i5-7400

AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
AMD Socket FP5MOBILE
2200 MHz / Cores: 4 / Oct 2017
AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
Intel Core i5-7400
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3300 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2016
Intel Core i5-7400

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
    111%
  • Intel Core i5-7400
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
    100%
  • Intel Core i5-7400
    105%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
    128%
  • Intel Core i5-7400
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 7 2700U

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 28% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
50 watts lower power draw.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-7400

5% higher single threaded performance.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


AMD Ryzen 7 2700U

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 2700U

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 7 2700UIntel Core i5-7400
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
vPro
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 7 2700UIntel Core i5-7400
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Kabylake
MarketMobilevsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameRaven RidgevsKaby Lake
Release DateOct 2017vsSep 2016

Cores

AMD Ryzen 7 2700UIntel Core i5-7400
Cores4vs4
Threads8vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 10vsIntel HD Graphics 630

Cache

AMD Ryzen 7 2700UIntel Core i5-7400
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4096 KB (shared)vs6144 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 7 2700UIntel Core i5-7400
SocketAMD Socket FP5vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
PackageFP5vs
Die Size210mm²vsunknown
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 7 2700UIntel Core i5-7400
Cpu Frequency2200 MHzvs3300 MHz
Turbo Clock3800 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP15 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
    4180 points
  • Intel Core i5-7400
    3960 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
    11809 points
  • Intel Core i5-7400
    15840 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
    140
  • Intel Core i5-7400
    148

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
    707
  • Intel Core i5-7400
    549

points - higher is better