AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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
9859 points
249% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points
9924 points
126% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points
9836 points
318% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points
9828 points
335% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3087 points
10192 points
230% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points
313.97 points
494% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4213 points
20634 points
389% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points
11764 points
313% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points
2141 points
126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points
11794 points
312% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points
2200 points
133% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
24
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.7 GHz
76% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.8 GHz
29% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
200% significantly lower TDP
105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
6 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
64 MiB
1500% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

566th of 1,089
94th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2020 May

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 9 5900X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 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 Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU because of its 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 9 5900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3550H. The Ryzen 9 5900X 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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