AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Ryzen 3 4300U

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Combined performance score

Ryzen 3 4300U
4.86

Ryzen 5 3550H outperforms Ryzen 3 4300U by 5% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

Comparing Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 5 3550H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking11401105
Place by popularitynot in top-10091
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)AMD Ryzen 5
Architecture codenameRenoir-U (Zen 2)Picasso-U (Zen+)
Release date6 January 2020 (4 years old)6 January 2019 (5 years old)
Current price$520 $734

Technical specs

Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 5 3550H basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads48
Base clock speed2.7 GHz2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.7 GHz3.7 GHz
L1 cache128K (per core)128K (per core)
L2 cache512K (per core)512K (per core)
L3 cache4 MB (shared)4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography7 nm12 nm
Die size156 mm2209.78 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C105 °C
Number of transistors9800 Million4940 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 5 3550H compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFP6FP5
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 5 3550H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsDDR4-3200/LPDDR4-4266 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI++
FMA+no data
AVX++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 5 3550H are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 5 3550H. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4, DDR4DDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory size64 GB64 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidth68.27 GB/s38.4 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 5AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 5 3550H.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 3 4300U 4.86
Ryzen 5 3550H 5.09
+4.7%

Ryzen 5 3550H outperforms Ryzen 3 4300U by 5% in our combined benchmark results.


Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Ryzen 3 4300U 7457
Ryzen 5 3550H 7822
+4.9%

Ryzen 5 3550H outperforms Ryzen 3 4300U by 5% in Passmark.

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 3 4300U 1252
+32.9%
Ryzen 5 3550H 942

Ryzen 3 4300U outperforms Ryzen 5 3550H by 33% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 3 4300U 3386
+19%
Ryzen 5 3550H 2846

Ryzen 3 4300U outperforms Ryzen 5 3550H by 19% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Ryzen 3 4300U 6068
Ryzen 5 3550H 7174
+18.2%

Ryzen 5 3550H outperforms Ryzen 3 4300U by 18% in 3DMark06 CPU.

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Ryzen 3 4300U 563
Ryzen 5 3550H 742
+31.9%

Ryzen 5 3550H outperforms Ryzen 3 4300U by 32% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Ryzen 3 4300U 164
+13.8%
Ryzen 5 3550H 144

Ryzen 3 4300U outperforms Ryzen 5 3550H by 14% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 3 4300U 3.2
Ryzen 5 3550H 4.7
+46.9%

Ryzen 5 3550H outperforms Ryzen 3 4300U by 47% in TrueCrypt AES.

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 3 4300U 2397
Ryzen 5 3550H 2929
+22.2%

Ryzen 5 3550H outperforms Ryzen 3 4300U by 22% in WinRAR 4.0.

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 3 4300U 172
+17.4%
Ryzen 5 3550H 147

Ryzen 3 4300U outperforms Ryzen 5 3550H by 17% in x264 encoding pass 1.

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 3 4300U 35
Ryzen 5 3550H 44
+26.6%

Ryzen 5 3550H outperforms Ryzen 3 4300U by 27% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Ryzen 3 4300U 4042
+20.5%
Ryzen 5 3550H 3353

Ryzen 3 4300U outperforms Ryzen 5 3550H by 21% in Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core.

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Ryzen 3 4300U 13134
Ryzen 5 3550H 14437
+9.9%

Ryzen 5 3550H outperforms Ryzen 3 4300U by 10% in Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core.

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 4.86 5.09
Integrated graphics card 4.65 4.48
Recency 6 January 2020 6 January 2019
Threads 4 8
Chip lithography 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt

We couldn't decide between Ryzen 3 4300U and Ryzen 5 3550H. The differences in performance seem too small.


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