Intel Core i5-7300U vs AMD A6-3620

Core i5-7300U vs A6-3620 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A6-3620 performs better than the Core i5-7300U. Despite this, the Core i5-7300U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A6-3620 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-7300U. Indeed, the A6-3620 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-7300U. But they both have the same number of threads. A Core i5-7300U CPU outputs less heat than a A6-3620 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.