AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i7-7700

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 7th 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

3300 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points

5283 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

2715 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points

2606 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3087 points

0.82% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

3062 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points

74.17 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points

4377 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points

1353 points

42% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points

4482 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points

1405 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.6 GHz

71% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.2 GHz

13% 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

Identical

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

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

566th of 1,089

500th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

7th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i7-7700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7700 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Also, the Core i7-7700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-7700 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3550H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700. Despite this, the Core i7-7700 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3550H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.