AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i7-7600U

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i7-7600U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500U beats the Core i7-7600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7600U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-7600U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7600U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7600U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i7-7600U 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.

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 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.