Intel Pentium 3556U vs Intel Core 2 Duo E6550

Compare Intel Pentium 3000 Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

595 points

14% slightly better overall score

520 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1281 points

12% slightly better gaming score

1134 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

428 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

371 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

410 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

356 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

690 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

393 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

368 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

251 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

509 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

414 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

304 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

252 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

1.7 GHz

2.33 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,062nd of 1,089

1,070th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium 3000 Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2007 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium 3556U vs Core 2 Duo E6550 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E6550 is faster than the Pentium 3556U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 3556U in all gaming tests too.

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 2 Duo E6550 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium 3556U. A Pentium 3556U CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E6550 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. For instance, the Pentium 3556U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.