Intel Core i3-550 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8200

Core i3-550 vs Core 2 Duo E8200 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-550 is faster than the Core 2 Duo E8200. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8200 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-550 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-550 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Duo E8200. The Core 2 Duo E8200 outputs less heat than Core i3-550 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-550 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.