Intel Core i5-3550 vs Intel Core i5-6402P

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-6402P

Price

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$ 298.95

$ 118.66

$ 180.29 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2119 points

2224 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3894 points

4145 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1620 points

1690 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1555 points

1619 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.36 points

36.61 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1939 points

3058 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

644 points

1081 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1924 points

3073 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

1134 points

75% 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

17% slightly higher clock speed

2.81 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 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

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

702nd of 1,089

677th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3550 vs Core i5-6402P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6402P is faster than the Core i5-3550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3550 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3550 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6402P. Also, the Core i5-3550 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6402P 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.

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