AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13420H is faster than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3550H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13420H has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Both the Ryzen 5 3550H and Core i5-13420H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. The Core i5-13420H 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.