AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

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
4357 points
54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points
6337 points
44% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points
3730 points
58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points
3577 points
58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3087 points
3688 points
19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points
90.31 points
70% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4213 points
8565 points
103% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points
4587 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points
1288 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points
4533 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points
1297 points
37% slightly 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
Identical
2.1 GHz

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
405th 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
2021 December

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 5500U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U 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 5500U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3550H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Both the Ryzen 5 3550H and Ryzen 5 5500U have the same clock speed. The Ryzen 5 5500U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. The Ryzen 5 5500U 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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