Intel Core i7-8550U vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

Core i7-8550U vs Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition beats the Core i7-8550U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-8550U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8550U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8550U. The Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.