AMD Ryzen 3 4300U vs Intel Core i7-6850K

Ryzen 3 4300U vs Core i7-6850K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 4300U is faster than the Core i7-6850K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6850K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-6850K has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 4300U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4300U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6850K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 4300U. Also, the Core i7-6850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 4300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6850K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 4300U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6850K. Despite this, the Core i7-6850K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 4300U.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 4300U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.