AMD Ryzen 3 3200U vs Intel Core i7-3612QM

Ryzen 3 3200U vs Core i7-3612QM benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3612QM beats the Ryzen 3 3200U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3200U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3612QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3200U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 3200U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3612QM. Also, the Ryzen 3 3200U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3200U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3612QM CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Ryzen 3 3200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.