AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs Intel Core i7-6700HQ

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Core i7-6700HQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6700HQ beats the Ryzen 3 3250U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3250U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-6700HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3250U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3250U. According to our data, the Ryzen 3 3250U and Core i7-6700HQ have the same clock speed. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 3 3250U 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 3250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.