AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-7700HQ

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core i7-7700HQ comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600 performs better than the Core i7-7700HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700HQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-7700HQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700HQ. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7700HQ. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-7700HQ outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.