Intel Core i5-3550S vs Intel Core i5-4430

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 149.95
$ 99.71
$ 50.24 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1279 points
1887 points
47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2353 points
3475 points
47% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

976 points
1443 points
47% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

937 points
1388 points
48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2383 points
2730 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

708 points
948 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1747 points
2834 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

619 points
1014 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
Identical
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
29% slightly lower TDP
84 W

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

876th of 1,089
745th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2013 May

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

Core i5-3550S vs Core i5-4430 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3550S is faster than the Core i5-4430. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4430 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i5-3550S and Core i5-4430 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-3550S has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3550S CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4430 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.

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