AMD Ryzen 7 4800H vs Ryzen 5 3550H
We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.9 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with 8-cores against the 2.1 GHz Ryzen 5 3550H with 4-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of electricity consumption
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
- Has 4 more physical cores
- Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
- Supports up to 64 GB DDR4-3200 RAM
- Newer - released 1-year later
- Around 32.51 GB/s (91%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
- More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 12 nanometers
- 65% faster in a single-core Geekbench v5 test - 1160 vs 701 points
- 14% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.2 GHz vs 3.7 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
- Consumes up to 22% less energy than the Ryzen 7 4800H – 35 vs 45 Watt
Benchmarks
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
Specifications
General
| Vendor | AMD | AMD |
| Released | January 6, 2020 | January 6, 2019 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| Codename | Zen 2 | Zen+ |
| Socket | FP6 | FP5 |
| Integrated GPU | Radeon Vega 7 | Radeon Vega 8 |
Performance
| Cores | 8 | 4 |
| Threads | 16 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2.9 GHz | 2.1 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency | 4.2 GHz | 3.7 GHz |
| Bus frequency | 100 MHz | 100 MHz |
| Multiplier | 29x | 21x |
| L1 Cache | 32K (per core) | 128K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 512K (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 8MB (shared) | 4MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
Power
| Transistors | - | 4.9 billions |
| Fabrication process | 7 nm | 12 nm |
| TDP | 45 W | 35 W |
| Max. temperature | 105°C | 105°C |
Memory support
| Memory types | DDR4-3200, LPDDR4X-4266 | DDR4-2400 |
| Memory Size | 64 GB | 32 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 68.27 GB/s | 35.76 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | Yes |
Misc
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 7 4800H official page | AMD Ryzen 5 3550H official page |
| PCI Express Version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 16 | 12 |
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