Intel Core i7-8750H vs AMD Ryzen 5 3450U

Core i7-8750H vs Ryzen 5 3450U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8750H beats the Ryzen 5 3450U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3450U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-8750H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3450U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8750H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U. The Ryzen 5 3450U outputs less heat than Core i7-8750H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3450U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8750H. Despite this, the Core i7-8750H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U.

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 i7-8750H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.