AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i7-10850H

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i7-10850H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10850H 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 i7-10850H has significantly more cores with 6 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 Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Also, the Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-10850H CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-10850H. Despite this, the Core i7-10850H 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.