Intel Core i5-3550 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Core i5-3550 vs Core 7 150U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3550 beats the Core 7 150U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 150U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3550. Indeed, the Core 7 150U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-3550. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3550. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-3550 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-3550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.