Intel Core i5-4670 vs AMD Ryzen 7 1700. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Core i5 AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  4 1
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 4000 AMD Ryzen 1000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.40 GHz 3.00 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.80 GHz 3.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 16
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 4600 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.20 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  20
• Shader
  160
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  7.5
• DirectX Version
  11.1
• Technology
  22 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 7 1700 and Intel Core i5-4670. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR4-2666
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-4670 and AMD Ryzen 7 1700 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  84 W 65 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-4670 and Intel Core i5-4670, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  6.00 MB 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  Haswell S Summit Ridge (Zen)
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1150 AM4
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q1/2017