Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Core i5-3470S

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-3470S

Price

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$ 969.00

$ 621.00

$ 348.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2085 points

11% slightly better overall score

1864 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3523 points

2% slightly better gaming score

3436 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1671 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

1423 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1597 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

1365 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

28.42 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2622 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1747 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

878 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

606 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz

2.9 GHz

61% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

706th of 1,089

748th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8550U vs Core i5-3470S comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8550U performs better than the Core i5-3470S. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3470S in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-8550U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3470S has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3470S 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 i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.