Intel Core i5-3550S vs Intel Pentium G4400

Core i5-3550S vs Pentium G4400 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3550S performs better than the Pentium G4400. Despite this, the Pentium G4400 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 G4400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G4400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3550S. The Pentium G4400 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-3550S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.