Intel Core i5-3550S vs Intel Core i7-950

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Price

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$ 149.95
$ 31.00
$ 118.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1279 points
0.55% slightly better overall score
1272 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2353 points
18% slightly better gaming score
1990 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

976 points
1053 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

937 points
1010 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2383 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1595 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

708 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
460 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1747 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1494 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

619 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
457 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.06 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
100% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory
24 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

902nd of 1,124
903rd of 1,124

Family

The product line

Core
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2009 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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