Intel Core i5-3550 vs Intel Core i7-4810MQ

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2119 points
1% slightly better overall score
2087 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3894 points
11% slightly better gaming score
3480 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1620 points
1684 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1555 points
1617 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.36 points
48.85 points
78% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1939 points
3141 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

644 points
1012 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1924 points
3224 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points
1110 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
33% slightly more cores
3

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
5
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
18% slightly higher clock speed
2.79 GHz

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
47 W
63% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

715th of 1,111
720th of 1,111

Family

The product line

Core
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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