AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core i7 X 990 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7 X 990 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 X 990 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 X 990 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. In terms of cache, the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more L2 cache when 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.