AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i7 X 980 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7 X 980 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3550H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 X 980 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. The info from our database shows that the Core i7 X 980 has more L2 cache than 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.