Intel Core i7 8550U 's Advantages
Lower TDP (15W vs 30W)
AMD Ryzen 7 8840U 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Better graphics card performance
Higher specification of memory (7500 vs 2400)
Larger memory bandwidth (89.6GB/s vs 37.5GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)
Higher base frequency (3.3GHz vs 1.8GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (16MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)