AMD Ryzen 7 4800H vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Ryzen 7 4800H vs Core i7-8550U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 4800H beats the Core i7-8550U in overall performance. 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 7 4800H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8550U. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 4800H has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-8550U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8550U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 4800H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Also, the Ryzen 7 4800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8550U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 4800H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 4800H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8550U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 7 4800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.