The Ryzen 5 3550U outscores the Ryzen 7 3700U and Ryzen 7 3750H in Geekbench, but lives in Intel's shadow

[Redaktion]

The Ryzen 5 3550U may be another mobile Ryzen 3000 series APU, but not all is as it seems. A recent Geekbench listing shows that the processor is capable of even outscoring the Ryzen 7 3750H in multicore tasks. However, it appears that AMD is still incapable of narrowing the gap to Intel's Whiskey Lake generation, putting somewhat of a dampener on the Ryzen 5 3550U.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Ryzen-5-3550U-outscores-the-Ryzen-7-3700U-and-Ryzen-7-3750H-in-Geekbench-but-lives-in-Intel-s-shadow.430315.0.html

[Shobith]

Your 3700U and 3750H multicore scores seem to be way below average. I have a 3550H laptop and I'm consistently seeing 14000+ points in GB4 multicore (was around 12000 even with single channel memory). Either you have an absolute dud or the testing methodology was flawed in some way. Even the Geekbench benchmark chart lists an average score of around 11700 for the 3750H, which is usually lower than the actual scores because it includes the low scores from people running in powersaver mode.

The title is misleading and the 3550U cannot beat the 3750H in any way as it is having the exact same architecture and core count while being clocked lower and with a lower TDP limit.

[lliamander]

> Your 3700U and 3750H multicore scores seem to be way below average.

Agreed.  The supposedly faster benchmark of the new 3550U doesn't even beat my 3500U.  I didn't even do anything to increase the power limits on the processor, just running it plugged in.  Of course, I'm using the ThinkPad E495, which does not have the thermal throttling issues that other Ryzen laptops seem to be having this year.

I'm actually a little bit curious as to why there even is a 3550U.  The 3700U isn't all that much faster than the 3500U to begin with.

[Alex Alderson]

> Your 3700U and 3750H multicore scores seem to be way below average.

Agreed.  The supposedly faster benchmark of the new 3550U doesn't even beat my 3500U.  I didn't even do anything to increase the power limits on the processor, just running it plugged in.  Of course, I'm using the ThinkPad E495, which does not have the thermal throttling issues that other Ryzen laptops seem to be having this year.

I'm actually a little bit curious as to why there even is a 3550U.  The 3700U isn't all that much faster than the 3500U to begin with.

The average scores for The Ryzen 7 3700U and Ryzen 7 3750H are taken from our database. Perhaps, "average scores from our database" would have avoided any confusion.

[lliamander]

> The average scores for The Ryzen 7 3700U and Ryzen 7 3750H are taken from our database. Perhaps, "average scores from our database" would have avoided any confusion.

Ah, that makes sense.  Fair enough.