Intel Core i5-3550S vs Intel Pentium G3460

Core i5-3550S vs Pentium G3460 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3550S beats the Pentium G3460 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G3460 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-3550S has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G3460 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3460. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3460 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3550S. The Pentium G3460 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.

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.