AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i7-9850H

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i7-9850H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9850H 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9850H 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 i7-9850H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Also, the Core i7-9850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9850H 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 i7-9850H. Despite this, the Core i7-9850H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H.

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.