Intel Core i5-6200U vs Intel Core i3-550

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-550

Price

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$ 1448.00

$ 129.95

$ 1318.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1045 points

1048 points

0.29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2029 points

2% slightly better gaming score

1976 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

783 points

795 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

751 points

763 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.78 points

116% significantly higher Blender score

9.59 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1333 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

417 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.2 GHz

39% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

386% significantly lower TDP

73 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

38 GiB

18% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

935th of 1,089

934th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2010 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6200U vs Core i3-550 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-550 is faster than the Core i5-6200U. Despite this, the Core i5-6200U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-550 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6200U. A Core i5-6200U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-550 CPU because of its significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i5-6200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.