AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 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

5248 points

85% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points

7843 points

78% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

4484 points

90% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points

4327 points

91% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3087 points

5258 points

70% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points

113.50 points

114% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4213 points

9134 points

116% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.4 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

28% slightly lower TDP

45 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

640 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

12 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

566th of 1,089

318th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i5-12450H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450H beats the Ryzen 5 3550H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3550H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12450H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3550H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3550H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3550H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12450H. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12450H CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-12450H 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.