AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i5-10210U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 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

2822 points

27% slightly better overall score

2205 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3819 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

1744 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

1666 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

36.33 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4213 points

4376 points

3% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points

2911 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points

948 points

0.11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points

3069 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points

1196 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (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

31% slightly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.2 GHz

13% 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

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

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

566th of 1,089

684th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2019 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i5-10210U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3550H beats the Core i5-10210U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10210U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3550H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10210U. Despite this, the Core i5-10210U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10210U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3550H 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 3550H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10210U. Despite this, the Core i5-10210U 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.