Intel Core i7-12700K vs Intel Core i5-3550

Core i7-12700K vs Core i5-3550 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700K is faster than the Core i5-3550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3550 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700K has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-3550 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3550. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3550. Also, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3550 outputs less heat than Core i7-12700K thanks to a significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.