Intel Core i7-7700HQ vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U

Core i7-7700HQ vs Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U is faster than the Core i7-7700HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-7700HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7700HQ. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-7700HQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700HQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U.

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 i7-7700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.