AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Core i3-6100U

Ryzen 7 1700 vs Core i3-6100U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1700 beats the Core i3-6100U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6100U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 1700 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6100U. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has 8 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6100U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6100U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-6100U. The Core i3-6100U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 1700 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 7 1700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.