Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H vs Ryzen 7 3700U

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 7 3700U
2019
4 cores / 8 threads, 15 Watt
4.63
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H
2022
8 cores / 16 threads, 45 Watt
14.80
+220%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by a whopping 220% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 7 3700U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking1224445
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Ryzen 7no data
Architecture codenamePicasso-U (Zen+)Rembrandt-H (Zen 3+)
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)19 April 2022 (2 years ago)
Current price$625 no data

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 7 3700U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads816
Base clock speed2.3 GHz3.2 GHz
Boost clock speed4 GHz4.7 GHz
L1 cache128K (per core)64K (per core)
L2 cache512K (per core)512K (per core)
L3 cache4 MB (shared)16 MB (shared)
Chip lithography12 nm6 nm
Die size209.78 mm2208 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C95 °C
Number of transistors4500 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 7 3700U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1
SocketFP5FP7
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 7 3700U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsDDR4-2400, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEDDR5-4800/LPDDR5-6400 RAM (incl. ECC), PCIe 4, PRO, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI++
FMA++
AVX++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 7 3700U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 7 3700U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR5
Maximum memory size64 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 10AMD Radeon 680M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 7 3700U and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H.

PCIe version3.04.0
PCI Express lanes1220

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 7 3700U 4.63
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 14.80
+220%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 220% based on our aggregate benchmark results.


Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Ryzen 7 3700U 7162
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 22897
+220%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 220% in Passmark.

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 7 3700U 880
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 1663
+89%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 89% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 7 3700U 2540
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 7481
+195%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 195% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Ryzen 7 3700U 4411
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 5791
+31.3%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 31% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Ryzen 7 3700U 15461
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 34412
+123%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 123% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Ryzen 7 3700U 4595
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 11620
+153%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 153% in 3DMark06 CPU.

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

Ryzen 7 3700U 13.48
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 3.72
+262%

Ryzen 7 3700U outperforms Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H by 262% in wPrime 32.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Ryzen 7 3700U 8
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 21
+181%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 181% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Ryzen 7 3700U 672
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 2086
+210%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 210% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Ryzen 7 3700U 139
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 205
+47.6%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 48% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Ryzen 7 3700U 1.59
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 2.6
+63.5%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 64% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 7 3700U 3.8
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 9.1
+139%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 139% in TrueCrypt AES.

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 7 3700U 2392
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 5263
+120%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 120% in WinRAR 4.0.

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 7 3700U 27
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 104
+284%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 284% in x264 encoding pass 2.

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 7 3700U 105
Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H 222
+112%

Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H outperforms Ryzen 7 3700U by 112% in x264 encoding pass 1.

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 4.63 14.80
Integrated graphics card 4.24 17.35
Recency 6 January 2019 19 April 2022
Physical cores 4 8
Threads 8 16
Chip lithography 12 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 45 Watt

The Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H is our recommended choice as it beats the Ryzen 7 3700U in performance tests.


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