Intel Core i3-550 vs Intel Pentium 2020M

Core i3-550 vs Pentium 2020M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium 2020M 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores 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 Pentium 2020M. The Pentium 2020M outputs less heat than Core i3-550 thanks to a significantly 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.