Intel Core i3-7020U vs Intel Core i3-550

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 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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$ 1126.00

$ 129.95

$ 996.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

999 points

1048 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1994 points

0.91% slightly better gaming score

1976 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

740 points

795 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

710 points

763 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.70 points

95% significantly higher Blender score

9.59 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

726 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

417 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1491 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

899 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

734 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

437 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.2 GHz

39% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

386% significantly lower TDP

73 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

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

948th of 1,089

934th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2010 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-7020U vs Core i3-550 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-550 performs better than the Core i3-7020U. Despite this, the Core i3-7020U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-550 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-7020U. A Core i3-7020U 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 i3-7020U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.