AMD Ryzen 7 7730U vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i3 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5419 points
64% significantly better overall score
3288 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6732 points
17% slightly better gaming score
5718 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5010 points
93% significantly better multitasking score
2595 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4902 points
97% significantly better heavy workload score
2480 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.22 points
128% significantly higher Blender score
57.10 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11490 points
98% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
5802 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6209 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4826 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1630 points
1815 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
66% significantly higher clock speed
1.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
6% slightly more L1 cache
480 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
4.5 MiB
12% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache
10 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

302nd of 1,089
501st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
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

-
No

Ryzen 7 7730U vs Core i3-1215U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7730U beats the Core i3-1215U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1215U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 7730U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-1215U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1215U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7730U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1215U. In terms of cache, the Core i3-1215U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7730U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7730U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-1215U.

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 7730U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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