AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Core i7-3517U

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Core i7-3517U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700U beats the Core i7-3517U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3517U 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 i7-3517U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3517U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3700U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3517U. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3517U CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.