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AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
The Ryzen 7 3700U brought AMD's Zen+ architecture to affordable 2019 laptops, pairing four cores and eight threads with Vega 10 graphics at a 15W default TDP. It set a baseline for budget x86 chips that later Ryzen U-series parts have since moved well past.
Pros
- Four Zen+ cores and eight threads at a modest 15W TDP
- Vega 10 graphics with 10 compute units handle basic and older games
- Configurable TDP up to 35W for higher-performance laptop designs
- Was widely used in inexpensive 2019-era laptops
Cons
- Single-core performance is far behind current entry-level chips
- 12nm process and DDR4-2400 memory limit efficiency and bandwidth
- No AV1 decode, hardware AI acceleration, or PCIe 4.0 support
- Only four cores limit heavier multitasking versus later 8-core U-series chips
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
General
- Announced
- 2019
- Process
- 12 nm
- Base TDP
- 15 W
- Max TDP
- 35 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 4
- Performance cores
- 4
- Threads
- 8
- Base clock
- 2.3 GHz
- Boost clock
- 4 GHz
- L3 cache
- 4 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- AMD Radeon RX Vega 10
- iGPU clock
- 1,400 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR4-2400
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 1,006Bottom 2%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 3,412Bottom 5%
- PassMark
- 7,007Bottom 13%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 724Bottom 26%
Quick answers
Is the AMD Ryzen 7 3700U good in 2026?
The AMD Ryzen 7 3700U earns an Inno Score of 32.4/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The Ryzen 7 3700U brought AMD's Zen+ architecture to affordable 2019 laptops, pairing four cores and eight threads with Vega 10 graphics at a 15W default TDP. It set a baseline for budget x86 chips that later Ryzen U-series parts have since moved well past.
Does the AMD Ryzen 7 3700U count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 7,007 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26, 2026), which puts it in Tier D of our CPU tier checker: legacy Core i7 and budget chips, slower than recent Core i5 chips such as the i5-1235U. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
What are the key specs of the AMD Ryzen 7 3700U?
Cores: 4 · Threads: 8 · Boost clock: 4 GHz · Base TDP: 15 W
What are the closest alternatives to the AMD Ryzen 7 3700U?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Pentium Silver N6000, Intel Core i5-8250U, Intel Processor N150 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
