AMD Ryzen 3 4300U vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2845 points

36% slightly better overall score

2085 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5224 points

48% significantly better gaming score

3523 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2174 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

1671 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2086 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

1597 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.55 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

43.52 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3571 points

22% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

2914 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3390 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2622 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1233 points

40% 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

2.7 GHz

49% 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

15 W

Identical

15 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

Identical

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

562nd of 1,089

706th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 4300U vs Core i7-8550U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 4300U performs better than the Core i7-8550U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-8550U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 4300U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 4300U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 4300U.

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 4300U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.