AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Core i5-6300HQ

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-6300HQ

Price

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$ 1963.00

$ 1918.00

$ 45.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points

77% significantly better overall score

1438 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points

57% significantly better gaming score

2667 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points

89% significantly better multitasking score

1096 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points

88% significantly better heavy workload score

1053 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

38.90 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2494 points

2685 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

867 points

970 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points

2777 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points

1025 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

Identical

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

45 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,089

826th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Core i5-6300HQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700U beats the Core i5-6300HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300HQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 7 3700U has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 7 3700U and Core i5-6300HQ are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6300HQ CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.