Ryzen 3 5300U vs Core i7-6500U specs and performance
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 5300U is faster than the Core i7-6500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 3 5300U has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-6500U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 5300U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6500U. Also, the Ryzen 3 5300U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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