Intel Core i3-3110M vs Intel Core i3-550

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-550

Price

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$ 420.00

$ 129.95

$ 290.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

916 points

1048 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1808 points

1976 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

682 points

795 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

655 points

763 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.17 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

9.59 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

800 points

911 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

391 points

417 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

816 points

899 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

391 points

437 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.2 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

108% significantly lower TDP

73 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

38 GiB

18% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

976th of 1,089

934th of 1,089

Family

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2010 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-3110M vs Core i3-550 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3110M beats the Core i3-550 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-550 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-550 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-3110M. A Core i3-3110M CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-550 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-3110M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.