AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i3-7100

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
AMD Socket FP5MOBILE
2100 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jan 2019
AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
Intel Core i3-7100
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3900 MHz / Cores: 2 / Feb 2017
Intel Core i3-7100

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-7100

Higher theoretical single-threaded performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 3550HIntel Core i3-7100
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost 2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
Hyper-Threading
AES-NI
TSX
CLMUL

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 3550HIntel Core i3-7100
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsIntel_Kabylake
MarketMobilevsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenamePicassovsKaby Lake
Release DateJan 2019vsFeb 2017

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 3550HIntel Core i3-7100
Cores4vs2
Threads8vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 8vsIntel HD 630

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 3550HIntel Core i3-7100
L1 Cache128K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache1MB (shared)vs3072 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 3550HIntel Core i3-7100
SocketAMD Socket FP5vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Tempunknownvs65°C
Packagevs
Die Sizeunknownvsunknown
Process12 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 3550HIntel Core i3-7100
Cpu Frequency2100 MHzvs3900 MHz
Turbo Clock3700 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsunknown
TDP35 Wvs51 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
    4070 points
  • Intel Core i3-7100
    4680 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
    11272 points
  • Intel Core i3-7100
    11232 points

Points - higher is better