Intel Core i5-3550 vs Intel Core i5-4590S

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4590S

Price

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$ 298.95

$ 198.95

$ 100.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2119 points

2162 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3894 points

4006 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1620 points

1647 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1555 points

1580 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.36 points

45.67 points

66% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1939 points

2794 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

644 points

1049 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1924 points

2984 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

1094 points

69% significantly 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

10% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

Identical

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

65 W

18% slightly lower TDP

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

692nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2014 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 i5-4590S benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4590S performs better than the Core i5-3550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3550 in all gaming tests too.

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 i5-3550 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4590S. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i5-4590S outputs less heat than Core i5-3550 thanks to a slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-3550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.