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

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. Also, the Ryzen 7 7730U has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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. 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.