AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Core i7-12700

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1963.00
$ 318.24
$ 1644.76 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points
10390 points
307% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points
12574 points
199% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points
9694 points
367% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points
9533 points
379% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points
259.30 points
457% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2494 points
9492 points
280% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

867 points
1788 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points
10978 points
311% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points
2375 points
159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
20
150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.3 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.9 GHz
22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
960 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
25 MiB
525% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,089
78th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Core i7-12700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 3700U. Indeed, the Core i7-12700 has 12 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 7 3700U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 3700U. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12700 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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.

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