AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 16 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
1% slightly better overall score
2788 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points
26% slightly better gaming score
3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points
2584 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points
2521 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points
212.94 points
303% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points
13475 points
370% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points
2524 points
167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
5.1 GHz
37% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
28 MiB
1300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
24 MiB
499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

566th of 1,089
572nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR5-8400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Core Ultra 7 255H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3550H beats the Core Ultra 7 255H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 255H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255H has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3550H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3550H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3550H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3550H. The Core Ultra 7 255H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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