Intel Core i5-3550 vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 298.95
$ 68.37
$ 230.58 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2119 points
5312 points
150% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3894 points
7287 points
87% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1620 points
4672 points
188% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1555 points
4523 points
190% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.36 points
124.29 points
354% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1924 points
6235 points
224% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points
1560 points
141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.6 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.1 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
65 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

702nd of 1,089
309th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i5-3550 vs Ryzen 5 4500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 4500 performs better than the Core i5-3550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3550 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 4500 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3550. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-3550. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3550. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3550. Also, the Ryzen 5 4500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 4500 outputs less heat than Core i5-3550 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-3550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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