AMD Ryzen 3 3200U vs Intel Core i7-4720HQ

Ryzen 3 3200U vs Core i7-4720HQ benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4720HQ is faster than the Ryzen 3 3200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4720HQ 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 i7-4720HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4720HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3200U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4720HQ CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-4720HQ also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.