AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 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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$ 417.00

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$ 969.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2653 points

27% slightly better overall score

2085 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4214 points

19% slightly better gaming score

3523 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2184 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

1671 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2097 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

1597 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.99 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

43.52 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3985 points

36% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

2914 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3185 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2622 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

955 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

878 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

77% significantly higher clock speed

1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4 GHz

17% 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

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

601st of 1,089

706th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

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 5 1400 vs Core i7-8550U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1400 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1400 has a significantly higher clock speed than 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 5 1400 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 5 1400 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8550U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.