Intel Core i7-3770K vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U

Core i7-3770K vs Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U is faster than the Core i7-3770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-3770K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-3770K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U outputs less heat than Core i7-3770K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.