Intel Core i7-7500U vs AMD Ryzen 3 7320U

Core i7-7500U vs Ryzen 3 7320U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 7320U is faster than the Core i7-7500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7500U 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 i7-7500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7500U 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.

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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.