AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Core i7-7500U

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Core i7-7500U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 3700U performs better than the Core i7-7500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7500U 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 i7-7500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7500U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. 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.

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.