AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i7-1260U

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i7-1260U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1260U performs better than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3550H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1260U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Indeed, the Core i7-1260U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3550H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3550H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3550H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260U 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-1260U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. The Core i7-1260U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.