AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3

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

4611 points

63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points

5571 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

4299 points

82% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points

4207 points

86% significantly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points

4013 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

871 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points

4512 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points

1142 points

20% 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

Identical

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

285% significantly lower TDP

135 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

379th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2014 August

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 E5-2637 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2637 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 3550H in overall performance. 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 E5-2637 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3550H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2637 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.