Intel Core i5-7300U vs AMD 3020e

Core i5-7300U vs 3020e benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-7300U performs better than the 3020e. Despite this, the 3020e has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-7300U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7300U has a significantly higher clock speed than the 3020e.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.