AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 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

3044 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points

5018 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

2460 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points

2361 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points

76.91 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points

3467 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points

953 points

0.63% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points

4098 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points

1291 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

4.1 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

134% significantly lower TDP

82 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

566th of 1,089

534th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Xeon E3-1281 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3550H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Also, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1281 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.