Intel Core i5-7300U vs AMD Ryzen 3 7320U

Core i5-7300U vs Ryzen 3 7320U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 7320U beats the Core i5-7300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 3 7320U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-7300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7300U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7300U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 7320U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 7320U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.