Intel Core i5-3550S vs Intel Core i5-4310M

Core i5-3550S vs Core i5-4310M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3550S beats the Core i5-4310M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4310M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-3550S has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4310M. Indeed, the Core i5-3550S has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4310M. 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 i5-4310M. Also, the Core i5-3550S has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4310M outputs less heat than Core i5-3550S 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 i5-3550S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.