AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i3-8350K

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i3-8350K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3550H is faster than the Core i3-8350K. Despite this, the Core i3-8350K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 3550H has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-8350K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3550H. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-8350K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3550H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-8350K. Despite this, the Core i3-8350K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H.

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 Ryzen 5 3550H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.