AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs Intel Core i5-7200U

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Core i5-7200U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700X beats the Core i5-7200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-7200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7200U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7200U. Also, the Ryzen 7 3700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-7200U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 3700X thanks to a 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 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.