Intel Core i3-550 vs Intel Core i5-650

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Intel Core i5-650

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 66.40

$ 63.55 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1048 points

3% slightly better overall score

1013 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1976 points

2051 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

795 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

747 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

763 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

716 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.59 points

15.60 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

0.33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

908 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

417 points

458 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

899 points

943 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

437 points

459 points

5% 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

3.2 GHz

Identical

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

73 W

Identical

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

38 GiB

Identical

38 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

934th of 1,089

943rd of 1,089

Family

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 May

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Core i3-550 vs Core i5-650 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-550 is faster than the Core i5-650. Despite this, the Core i5-650 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i3-550 and Core i5-650 are identical in this regard. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i3-550 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.