AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13420H performs better 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 i5-13420H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 3700U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. The Core i5-13420H also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.