AMD Ryzen 5 7520U: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Ryzen 5 7520U sales 20 September 2022. This is a Mendocino-U (Zen 2) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 6 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4300 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FP6 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR5 Dual-channel memory.
It provides poor benchmark performance at 7.67% of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.
General info
Ryzen 5 7520U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 885 | |
| Place by popularity | 33 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020) | |
| Architecture codename | Mendocino-U (Zen 2) | |
| Release date | 20 September 2022 (1 year old) |
Technical specs
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | |
| Threads | 8 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.8 GHz | of 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 4.3 GHz | of 6 (Core i9-13900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64K (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 512K (per core) | of 36864 (Apple M2 Max) |
| L3 cache | 4 MB (shared) | of 768 (EPYC 7773X) |
| Chip lithography | 6 nm | of 4 (Ryzen 9 7940H) |
| Die size | 100 mm2 | |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 5 7520U compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 1 | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8160M) |
| Socket | FP6 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 7520U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 7520U's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR5 Dual-channel | of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940H) |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 5 7520U.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon 610M |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5 (EPYC 9654) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 5 7520U. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
Benchmark coverage: 41%
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Benchmark coverage: 41%
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.
Benchmark coverage: 15%
Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core
Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.
Benchmark coverage: 15%
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Relative perfomance
Overall Ryzen 5 7520U performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook CPUs.
Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 5 7520U is Core i7-1068NG7, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Ryzen 5 7520U, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 5 7520U in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2522 configurations based on Ryzen 5 7520U in our database.
