AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Core i5-6200U

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Core i5-6200U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 3700U is faster than the Core i5-6200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-6200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6200U. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 7 3700U and Core i5-6200U are identical in this regard. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.