AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs AMD Ryzen 7 3700U

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Ryzen 7 3700U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600 beats the Ryzen 7 3700U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 3700U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 7 3700U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. The Ryzen 7 3700U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. The Ryzen 5 1600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.