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.

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The Ryzen 5 3550U is shaping up to be an intriguing APU. AMD has not only seemingly integrated a new Radeon RX Vega GPU, but early indications suggest that it can also hold its own against more powerful Ryzen processors. According to a recent Geekbench listing, the Ryzen 5 3550U is another mobile quad-core APU, with it identifying as an "AMD Family 23 Model 24 Stepping 1", the same identifier that AMD uses for its other Ryzen 3000 series APUs. The Ryzen 5 3550U also supports simultaneous multithreading (SMT), allowing it to execute up to 8 threads at once, has 4 MB of L3 cache like the Ryzen 5 3500U and Ryzen 7 3700U.

Geekbench also reports that the Ryzen 5 3550U has a 2.1 GHz base clock and effectively a 3.7 GHz boost clock, putting it on par with the Ryzen 5 3500U. Given the similarities between the Ryzen 5 3550U and its Ryzen 3000 series siblings, we expect the APU to also have a 15 W thermal design power (TDP).

However, the Ryzen 5 3550U scored surprisingly well in Geekbench 4, with it performing more like a Ryzen 7 3750H than a Ryzen 5 3500U or Ryzen 7 3700U. The latter two, for instance, have generally scored 10,328 and 10,542 points in the multicore portion of Geekbench, with the Ryzen 5 3550U pulling around 15% clear of them both on 11,894 points. Moreover, the Ryzen 5 3550U scored 3,879 points in the single-core equivalent, 8% more than the Ryzen 5 3500U and just 36 points ahead of the Ryzen 7 3700U. By contrast, the Ryzen 5 3550U trails the Ryzen 7 3750H by 18 points in the single-core test but scores 4% more than its H series sibling in the multicore version.