AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i7-3740QM

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Core i7-3740QM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700G beats the Core i7-3740QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3740QM in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700G has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-3740QM has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3740QM. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3740QM. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3740QM outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5700G 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 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.