AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Core i3-1220P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-1220P is faster than the Ryzen 7 3700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3700U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P. In terms of cache, the Core i3-1220P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. The Core i3-1220P 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.