AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 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

1% slightly better overall score

2777 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points

1% slightly better gaming score

4309 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

2303 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

2209 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points

65.44 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points

3009 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

883 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points

4033 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points

1125 points

19% 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

3.5 GHz

66% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

300% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

566th of 1,089

576th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Xeon E5-1620 v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3550H is faster than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3550H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.