AMD Ryzen 5 3550U vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

Comparative analysis of AMD Ryzen 5 3550U and AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Compatibility, Peripherals, Graphics interfaces, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Ryzen 5 3550U

  • Around 3% higher clock speed: 3.70 GHz vs 3.6 GHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 15% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2053 vs 1784
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 7681 vs 6619
Specifications (specs)
Maximum frequency 3.70 GHz vs 3.6 GHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2053 vs 1784
PassMark - CPU mark 7681 vs 6619

Reasons to consider the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 35 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Ryzen 5 3550U
CPU 2: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
2053
1784
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
7681
6619
Name AMD Ryzen 5 3550U AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U
PassMark - Single thread mark 2053 1784
PassMark - CPU mark 7681 6619
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 704
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 2503
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 25.516
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 376.268
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.115
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.83
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 101.686
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1569
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5962
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1569
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5962

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Ryzen 5 3550U AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen+ Zen
Launch date Q1 2020 10 January 2018
Place in performance rating 1098 744
Vertical segment Laptop Laptop
Family AMD Ryzen PRO Processors
OPN Tray YM250BC4T4MFB
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
Series AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile Processors with Radeon Vega Graphics

Performance

Base frequency 2.10 GHz 2 GHz
L3 cache 4 MB 4 MB
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Maximum frequency 3.70 GHz 3.6 GHz
Number of cores 4 4
Number of threads 8 8
64 bit support
Die size 246 mm
L1 cache 384 KB
L2 cache 2 MB
Maximum core temperature 95°C
Number of GPU cores 8
Transistor count 4500 Million
Unlocked

Memory

Max memory channels 2 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 35.76 GB/s
Maximum memory size 32 GB
Supported memory types DDR4-2400 DDR4
Supported memory frequency 2400 MHz

Graphics

Execution Units 8
Graphics base frequency 300 MHz
Graphics max frequency 1200 MHz 1100 MHz
Number of pipelines 512
Processor graphics Radeon Vega 8 Graphics Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
iGPU core count 8

Compatibility

Sockets supported FP5 FP5
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt
Configurable TDP 12-25 Watt
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1
Thermal Solution Not included

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 12
PCI Express revision 3.0

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI

Advanced Technologies

AMD SenseMI
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® AES New Instructions
The "Zen" Core Architecture

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)