Core i7-6500U vs Core i5-3550S comparison
In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6500U beats the Core i5-3550S in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3550S in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-3550S has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6500U. Indeed, the Core i5-3550S has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6500U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3550S has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6500U. Also, the Core i5-3550S has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3550S CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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