AMD Ryzen 3 2200U vs Intel Core i7-7700HQ

Ryzen 3 2200U vs Core i7-7700HQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7700HQ beats the Ryzen 3 2200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 2200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-7700HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 2200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 2200U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 2200U. Also, the Core i7-7700HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 2200U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-7700HQ 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.