AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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

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$ 1458.00

$ 969.00

$ 489.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

13% slightly better overall score

2085 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

8% slightly better gaming score

3523 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

1671 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

1597 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

43.52 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

2622 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

878 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

16% slightly 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

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

650th of 1,089

706th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i7-8550U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500U beats the Core i7-8550U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500U has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 5 3500U 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 5 3500U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.