AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i7-10810U

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i7-10810U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3550H beats the Core i7-10810U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10810U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10810U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Indeed, the Core i7-10810U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3550H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3550H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10810U. Despite this, the Core i7-10810U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10810U 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3550H has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10810U. Despite this, the Core i7-10810U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3550H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.