AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Xeon E5-2620 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 3550H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3550H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3550H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3550H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3550H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 v3 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.