Intel Core i5-3470 vs Intel Atom D2550

Core i5-3470 vs Atom D2550 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3470 beats the Atom D2550 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Atom D2550 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-3470 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Atom D2550 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3470 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Atom D2550.

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. For instance, the Core i5-3470 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.