AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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
4980 points
76% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points
6742 points
53% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points
4418 points
87% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points
4279 points
89% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3087 points
4635 points
50% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points
133.67 points
153% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points
6809 points
139% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points
1560 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points
6899 points
141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points
1613 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.6 GHz
71% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
85% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
32 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

566th of 1,089
352nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Ryzen 5 3600 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 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 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 3600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3550H. The Ryzen 5 3600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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