Ryzen 7 3700U: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 7 3700U is a 2019 Picasso processor — four Zen+ cores with Radeon Vega graphics, one of the chips that put AMD back into mainstream thin laptops. Eleven models in the catalog carry it, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 5 of the 69 games the catalog tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Ryzen 7 3700U sits in 2026

A catalog score of 39.9 places the chip 326th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the middle of the table. The neighborhood is a spread of 15 W-class parts: the Core i3-10110U, Core i7-10710U and Core i5-7360U sit just above, while the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U, Core i3-1305U and Ryzen 5 3580U sit just below. Trading places with a 2023 Core i3-1305U in the score column shows how competitive this chip remains for basic duty six years on.

What the chip brings

Picasso-U gives the Ryzen 7 3700U four cores and eight threads on a 12 nm process, rated at 15 W. It clocks from a 2.3 GHz base up to 4.0 GHz boost, and the integrated graphics are AMD's Radeon RX Vega 10 — the strongest iGPU option in this family, which mattered in an era when most rivals shipped weaker integrated graphics. Public benchmark numbers: Geekbench single-core 913, multi-core 2,661.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 5 of 69 cataloged games — Rise of the Tomb Raider, Mafia Definitive Edition, Rainbow Six Siege, Batman: Arkham Knight and Civilization 6. A long middle band of 42 titles sits at the minimum tier, including Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Doom Eternal and God of War, while 22 of the heaviest games ask for more CPU than the chip offers. These verdicts are CPU-only — the laptop's GPU and RAM decide actual playability — and the Vega 10 integrated graphics set a low ceiling for gaming.

Laptops that carry it

The 11-model roster is budget-mainstream hardware from 2019–2020: Lenovo's IdeaPad 3, S340, S145 and L340, the business-side ThinkPad E495, T495 and T495s, HP's EliteBook 735 G6, and Dell's Inspiron 15 3505 and Inspiron 14 5485. Listed prices run from $253 to $381. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at 75, energy efficiency 74 and portability 60.8 — decent travel numbers — against a gaming index of 21, a performance index of 28.7 and no discrete GPU in the median machine.

Bottom line

The Ryzen 7 3700U suits a buyer who wants an inexpensive, efficient laptop for everyday office and web work — the IdeaPad and ThinkPad shells around it can be found in the $250–$380 range. For gaming it is marginal: five recommended-tier games out of 69, with the Vega 10 graphics limiting even the titles the CPU can handle. As a cheap student or home-office machine, it still holds up; as anything more ambitious, it has aged out.