AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i5-8500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 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
3718 points
31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points
6040 points
37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points
3002 points
27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points
2880 points
27% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3087 points
3756 points
21% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points
83.18 points
57% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points
4908 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points
1369 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points
4868 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points
1396 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
33% slightly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3 GHz
42% much higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.1 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
85% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
9 MiB
125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

566th of 1,089
460th 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

-
DDR4-2666

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 i5-8500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8500 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 i5-8500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3550H has more threads than the Core i5-8500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8500 has a much higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. Also, the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3550H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3550H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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