AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Core 7 150U

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Core 7 150U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 7 150U beats the Ryzen 7 3700U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 3700U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core 7 150U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3700U. The Core 7 150U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.