Intel Core i5-3550S vs AMD Athlon X4 750K

Core i5-3550S vs Athlon X4 750K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 750K beats the Core i5-3550S in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3550S in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-3550S has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon X4 750K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 750K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3550S.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-3550S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.