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Intel Core i5 10300H vs AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

32 out of 100
Intel Core i5 10300H
VS
29 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
Intel Core i5 10300H
AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

We compared two 4-core laptop CPUs: the 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 10300H against the 2.1 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 3550H. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 3550H and 10300H
Advantages of Intel Core i5 10300H
  • Supports up to 128 GB DDR4-2933 RAM
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 40% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 1512 vs 1083 points
  • Around 10.04 GB/s (28%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Newer - released 1 year and 3 months later
  • 22% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.5 GHz vs 3.7 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
  • More powerful Radeon Vega 8 integrated graphics: 1.2 vs 0.4 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process – 12 versus 14 nanometers

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core i5 10300H
vs
Ryzen 5 3550H

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Core i5 10300H +40%
1512
Ryzen 5 3550H
1083
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Core i5 10300H +41%
4633
Ryzen 5 3550H
3288
File compression 374.2 MB/sec 328.7 MB/sec
Clang compilation 32.9 Klines/sec 23 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 101.1 pages/sec 88.4 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 136 Mpixels/sec 113 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 146.6 pages/sec 97.7 pages/sec
Background blur 25.2 images/sec 13.3 images/sec
Photo processing 44.6 images/sec 31 images/sec
Ray tracing 6.49 Mpixels/sec 5.25 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 693 & 876 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Core i5 10300H +26%
2520
Ryzen 5 3550H
2002
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 26.8 GOps/sec 26.9 GOps/sec
Floating point math 17 GOps/sec 13.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 27M Primes/sec 17M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 14.8M Strings/sec 12.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 2.7 GBytes/sec 6.9 GBytes/sec
Data compression 115.6 MBytes/sec 107 MBytes/sec
Physics 512 Frames/sec 397 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 7.3B Matrices/sec 4.1B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 6248 & 2685 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Core i5 10300H +23%
64.94
Ryzen 5 3550H
52.85

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 5.9 PPW 6.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 103 PPW 93.9 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 181.7 PPW 218.1 PPW
Blender / Watt 1.44 PPW 1.51 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i5 10300H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-24 (Tracey A.)Geekbench 6 CPU1553 / 5212
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-24 (Tracey A.)Cinebench 202467 / 266
πŸ“˜ 2024-11-27 (iamthaone)Cinebench 202456 / 191
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AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i5 10300H and AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released April 2, 2020 January 6, 2019
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Comet Lake Zen+ (Picasso)
Model number i5-10300H -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics 630 Radeon Vega 8
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 5 3550H -
Successor - Intel Core i5 11300H -
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#182nd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 4
P-Threads 8 8
Base Frequency (P) 2.5 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.5 GHz 3.7 GHz
Total
Total Cores 4 4
Total Threads 8 8
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 25x 21x
Bus Bandwidth 8 GT/s -
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 96K (per core)
L2 Cache 256K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 8MB (shared) 4MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 4.9 billions
Fabrication Process 14 nm 12 nm
TDP (PL1) 45 W 12-35 W (configurable)
Socket BGA-1440 FP5
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 105Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 630 Radeon Vega 8
GPU Base Clock 350 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1050 MHz 1200 MHz
Shading Units 192 512
TMUs 24 32
ROPs 3 8
Execution Units 24 8
TGP 15 W 25 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core i5 10300H
0.4 TFLOPS
Ryzen 5 3550H +200%
1.2 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon RX Vega 8 compared to UHD Graphics 630

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-2933 - DDR4-2400
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 45.8 GB/s 35.76 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i5 10300H official page AMD Ryzen 5 3550H official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes 16 12

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Comments

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