AMD Ryzen 3 2200G vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-8550U

Price

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$ 105.30

$ 863.70 significantly less expensive

$ 969.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2525 points

21% slightly better overall score

2085 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4577 points

29% slightly better gaming score

3523 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1941 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

1671 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1864 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

1597 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.12 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

43.52 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2872 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2622 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1002 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

878 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

94% significantly higher clock speed

1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

622nd of 1,089

706th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 December

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 2200G vs Core i7-8550U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 2200G is faster than the Core i7-8550U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-8550U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 2200G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8550U outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 2200G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 2200G has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 2200G.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 2200G has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.