Intel Core i5-3550 vs Intel Core i5-3570K

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Intel Core i5-3570K

Price

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$ 298.95

$ 139.00

$ 159.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2119 points

2217 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3894 points

4077 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1620 points

1694 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1555 points

1627 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.36 points

35.69 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1939 points

2162 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

644 points

704 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1924 points

2062 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

688 points

6% 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

3.3 GHz

3.4 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

Identical

77 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

702nd of 1,089

679th 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 i5-3550 vs Core i5-3570K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3570K beats the Core i5-3550 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3550 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3570K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3550. Also, the Core i5-3570K 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.

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 i5-3550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.