AMD Ryzen 3 2200U vs Intel Core i7-6700HQ

Ryzen 3 2200U vs Core i7-6700HQ benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700HQ is faster than the Ryzen 3 2200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 2200U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-6700HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 2200U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 2200U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 2200U. Also, the Core i7-6700HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 2200U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6700HQ CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 Ryzen 3 2200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.