Ryzen 5 7520C: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Ryzen 5 7520C sales 23 May 2023. This is a Mendocino (Zen 2) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at home 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 FT6 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR5 memory.
Primary details
Ryzen 5 7520C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | AMD Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020) | |
| Architecture codename | Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023) | |
| Release date | 23 May 2023 (1 year ago) |
Detailed specifications
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 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 4.3 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 512 KB (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 4 MB (shared) | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 6 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 100 mm2 | |
| 64 bit support | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 5 7520C 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 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | FT6 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 7520C. 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 7520C's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR5 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 5 7520C.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K) |
| PCI Express lanes | 4 | of 128 (EPYC 7551P) |
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Ryzen 5 7520C, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 5 7520C in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 29 configurations using Ryzen 5 7520C in our database.
