AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i7-5700HQ

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i7 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
2% slightly better overall score
2748 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points
4553 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
2217 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
2125 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points
55.31 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points
3230 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points
1113 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points
3227 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points
1100 points
16% 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
2.7 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
34% slightly lower TDP
47 W

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
579th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
5th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR3-1600

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 i7-5700HQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3550H beats the Core i7-5700HQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-5700HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-5700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3550H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5700HQ CPU because of its slightly 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 significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5700HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-5700HQ 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.

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