AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i7-8850H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8850H performs better than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3550H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8850H 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8850H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. Also, the Core i7-8850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8850H 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 slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H 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.