AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i3-N305

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8 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

2822 points

1% slightly better overall score

2781 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points

0.37% slightly better gaming score

4373 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

2279 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

2166 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

43.57 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points

4208 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points

1145 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

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

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

566th of 1,089

573rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Core i3 N-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i3-N305 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-N305 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3550H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-N305 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3550H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N305. In terms of cache, the Core i3-N305 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. The Core i3-N305 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.