Intel Core i7 8550U 's Advantages
Lower TDP (15W vs 35W)
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Higher specification of memory (LPDDR4-4266 vs DDR4-2400)
Larger memory bandwidth (68.3GB/s vs 37.5GB/s)
Higher base frequency (3.0GHz vs 1.8GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (16MB vs 8MB)