AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Core i5-11400

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Core i5-11400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400 is faster than the Ryzen 7 3700U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-11400 has significantly more cores with 6 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 Core i5-11400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 3700U. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-11400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3700U. The Core i5-11400 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.