AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Xeon X5680

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 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

4570 points

61% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points

4503 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

4578 points

94% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points

4568 points

102% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points

56.43 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

532 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.33 GHz

58% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

271% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

9652% significantly more L2 cache

0.02 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

566th of 1,089

383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Xeon X5680 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5680 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3550H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X5680 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5680 has a significantly 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 X5680 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3550H has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Ryzen 5 3550H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.