AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i7-8550U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700U 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700U has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8550U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8550U. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 7 5700U and Core i7-8550U are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 7 5700U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.