Intel Core i5-3470S vs Intel Core i5-3550S

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Intel Core i5-3550S

Price

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$ 621.00

$ 149.95

$ 471.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1864 points

45% significantly better overall score

1279 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3436 points

46% significantly better gaming score

2353 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1423 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

976 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1365 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

937 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1747 points

2383 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points

708 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1722 points

1747 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

598 points

619 points

3% 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

2.9 GHz

3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

748th of 1,089

876th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3470S vs Core i5-3550S comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3550S beats the Core i5-3470S in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3470S in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3550S has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3470S. Also, the Core i5-3550S has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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.

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