Intel Core i5-3550 vs Intel Core i7-3630QM

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Intel Core i7-3630QM

Price

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$ 298.95

$ 229.00

$ 69.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2119 points

10% slightly better overall score

1913 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3894 points

30% slightly better gaming score

2976 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1620 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1587 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1555 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1523 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.36 points

36.41 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1939 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1885 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

644 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

561 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1924 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1900 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

561 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 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

45 W

71% significantly 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

734th of 1,089

Family

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2012 August

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 i7-3630QM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3550 beats the Core i7-3630QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3630QM in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-3630QM has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3550 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3630QM. Also, the Core i5-3550 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3630QM outputs less heat than Core i5-3550 thanks to a significantly 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.