AMD Ryzen 5 4500U vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 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

3472 points
66% significantly better overall score
2085 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5565 points
57% significantly better gaming score
3523 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2824 points
69% significantly better multitasking score
1671 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2709 points
69% significantly better heavy workload score
1597 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.25 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
43.52 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

5920 points
103% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
2914 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
Identical
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

487th of 1,089
706th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 4500U vs Core i7-8550U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4500U is faster than the Core i7-8550U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 4500U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8550U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 4500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8550U. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 4500U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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