Intel Core i5-3550S vs Intel Core i5-4200H

Core i5-3550S vs Core i5-4200H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3550S beats the Core i5-4200H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4200H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-3550S has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-4200H that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3550S has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4200H. Also, the Core i5-3550S has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4200H outputs less heat than Core i5-3550S 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 i5-3550S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.