Core i7-3720QM vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U beats the Core i7-3720QM in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3720QM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-3720QM that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3720QM. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3720QM has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U outputs less heat than Core i7-3720QM thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-3720QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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