AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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
3472 points
23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points
5565 points
26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points
2824 points
20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points
2709 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points
69.25 points
31% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4213 points
5920 points
40% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
33% slightly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.3 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
15 W
133% significantly lower TDP

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
8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

566th of 1,089
487th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2020 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Ryzen 5 4500U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4500U is faster 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 4500U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3550H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3550H has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. The Ryzen 5 4500U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3550H thanks to a significantly 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 4500U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3550H. The Ryzen 5 4500U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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