AMD Ryzen 7 2700U vs Intel Core i7-3520M

Ryzen 7 2700U vs Core i7-3520M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700U beats the Core i7-3520M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3520M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-3520M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3520M. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-3520M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 2700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 2700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 2700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3520M CPU because of its 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 2700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.