The Ultimate Core i7-1065G7 and Ryzen 7 3700U/2700U CineBench comparison: How does Intel Ice Lake hold up against 15 other AMD Ryzen laptops?

A few interesting observations between the Core i7-1065G7 and Ryzen 7 3700U can be made based on the results above. Firstly, the Intel CPU is able to offer much faster multi-thread performance than any existing mobile Ryzen U series laptop during the initial 4 to 5 loops or so. CPU performance can drop by as much as 21 percent thereafter meaning that all those other benchmark comparisons between Ice Lake and mobile Ryzen out in the wild right now paint an incomplete performance picture of Ice Lake because they are not taking into account the throttling over extended periods of time.

Even after accounting for the performance throttling, however, the Core i7-1065G7 is still able to outperform most AMD Ryzen 7 3700U laptops. The key word here is "most" because one Ryzen 7 laptop comes out on top: the Lenovo ThinkPad E595. This particular laptop is able to maintain a minor 3 to 4 percent lead over the i7-1065G7 once the Turbo Boost clock rates of the Intel CPU have settled down.

A small handful of other Ryzen 7 3700U laptops are also neck-to-neck with the i7-1065G7 in raw multi-thread performance. The AMD-powered Lenovo IdeaPad S540-14API, Acer Nitro 5 AN515-42, and even Dell's own Inspiron 15 5000 5585 are each behind the Core i7-1065G7 by just a few percentage points at most.

Does this mean that the best Ryzen 7 3700U laptops available perform essentially the same as a Core i7-1065G7 laptop? Not necessarily. The much higher initial Turbo Boost clock rates of the Intel CPU allow it to launch applications and multi-task more swiftly than a Ryzen counterpart. Day-to-day usage scenarios benefit from small "bursts" of higher CPU performance and so an Ice Lake laptop will still feel faster than the Ryzen 7 3700U assuming all else is equal. It's unlikely that users will be subjecting their laptops to 100 percent CPU utilization for extended periods unless if there is heavy video encoding or editing involved. If that's the case, you'd be better off with a Ryzen H series or Core H series laptop instead.