AMD Ryzen 5 3450U vs Intel Core i7-6700

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points
3117 points
18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4310 points
4991 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2126 points
2559 points
20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2033 points
2457 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.48 points
69.31 points
75% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.4 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

604th of 1,089
523rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
6th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3450U vs Core i7-6700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6700 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3450U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3450U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3450U. A Ryzen 5 3450U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6700 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 5 3450U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700. Despite this, the Core i7-6700 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U.

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 5 3450U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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