AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i5-8259U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th 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
16% slightly better overall score
2416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points
4% slightly better gaming score
4204 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points
22% slightly better multitasking score
1922 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score
1847 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points
65.05 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4213 points
4% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
4025 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points
4030 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points
1206 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points
4117 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points
1241 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.3 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed

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
28 W
25% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
641st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i5-8259U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3550H is faster than the Core i5-8259U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8259U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8259U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. Also, the Core i5-8259U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8259U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3550H thanks to a slightly 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 i5-8259U. Despite this, the Core i5-8259U 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.

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