AMD Ryzen 7 3750H Review

The Ryzen 7 3750H is one of AMD's high-end Laptop processors. It was released in 2019 with 4 cores and 8 threads. With base clock at 2.3GHz, max speed at 4GHz, and a 35W power rating. The Ryzen 7 3750H is based on the Picasso 12nm family and is part of the Ryzen 7 series.

AMD's Zen+ series has landed, upping the ante with Intel in its high-stakes game for desktop PC market dominance with a well-rounded lineup of new chips that push mainstream platforms to higher core counts and more raw compute than we've ever seen. As a result, Intel's commanding presence in the enthusiast space is threatened in a way we haven't seen in over a decade.

As we've seen, gaming remains an advantage for Intel, so if squeezing out every last frame is all you care about, Intel's processors are a good choice. Much of that performance advantage will be less noticeable when gaming at higher resolutions, or if you pair the processors with a lesser graphics card.

What this all means is that the AMD Ryzen 7 3750H is an absolute beast when it comes to multi-threaded workloads, especially at this price point. If you're counting on doing some video editing or compiling one hell of an Excel spreadsheet, you're going to see firsthand a performance boost with the Ryzen 7 3750H.

One of the nice things about the AMD Ryzen 7 3750H processors is that the retail boxed models come with a CPU cooler. So, you can pick something like the AMD Ryzen 7 3750H up for $390.37 and don’t need to spend any extra money on CPU cooling.

The AMD Ryzen 7 3750H retail boxed processor comes with the traditional ‘pancake’ CPU cooler. Nothing fancy, but it gets the job done on this processor which is rated at 35W TDP. You do not need to have an aftermarket cooling solution unless you want to.

The gaming tests with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti installed in the test system showed the AMD Ryzen 7 3750H was more capable than many might have expected. The basic high-end processor from AMD that can be picked up for $390.37 was able to out perform the Core i7-10710U that runs $415 shipped in the three games we tested on. We know that you can’t test on just three games and declare something the overall victor, but it just goes to show that 4-core processors can still manage to get by today. Being able to play current game titles and stream to Twitch on the Ryzen 7 3750H was something we give playable results, but we were pleasantly surprised. As games become more threaded the ‘value’ in a 4-core processor continues to go down, but you can still get by with something like the Ryzen 7 3750H in a pinch.

The Ryzen 7 3750H clocks up to 4Ghz just as it promises on the box, and with AMD’s software you can take one of the cores all the way up to 4.1GHz. However, don’t expect to get much beyond that without seriously upgrading your cooling solution and manually tweaking voltages behind the operating system level.

Although the 35W-rated cooler doesn't feature a copper base or the LEDs found on AMD's higher-end thermal solutions, it does handle Ryzen 7's heat output deftly enough to facilitate XFR-triggered frequencies. This gives you an extra 200 MHz. We were even able to overclock the Ryzen 7 3750H to 4.2 GHz within a reasonable temperature range. The fan also blows down onto the motherboard, which provide additional cooling around the socket. If you need more bling, AMD recently announced that it now offers the LED-equipped cooler separately.