AMD Ryzen 7 4700U vs AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
AMD Socket FP6MOBILE
1800 MHz / Cores: 8 / Jan 2020
AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jun 2017
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

40 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Ryzen 5 1500X.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 7 4700UAMD Ryzen 5 1500X
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost 2
3DNow!
CnQ
NX bit

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 7 4700UAMD Ryzen 5 1500X
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsAMD Zen
MarketMobilevsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4-4266 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR4
CodenameRenoirvsZen
Release DateJan 2020vsJun 2017

Cores

AMD Ryzen 7 4700UAMD Ryzen 5 1500X
Cores8vs4
Threads8vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Graphics 448SPvsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 7 4700UAMD Ryzen 5 1500X
L1 Cache128K (per core)vs128 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs512 KB (per core)
L3 Cache12MB (shared)vs16384 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 7 4700UAMD Ryzen 5 1500X
SocketAMD Socket FP6vsAMD Socket AM4
Max Case TempN/Avsunknown
PackagevsuPGA
Die Sizeunknownvs192mm²
Process7 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 7 4700UAMD Ryzen 5 1500X
Cpu Frequency1800 MHzvs3200 MHz
Turbo Clock4200 MHzvs3500 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP25 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
    4704 points
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    3850 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
    16128 points
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    17177 points

Points - higher is better