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Is the Intel Core i5-3550 @ 3.30GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: LGA1155
Clockspeed: 3.3 GHz
Turbo Speed: 3.7 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 4
Typical TDP: 77 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz, Intel Core i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q1 2012
CPUmark/$Price: 14.33
Overall Rank:
1940th fastest in multithreading out of 4891 CPUs
1494th fastest in single threading out of 4891 CPUs
549th fastest in out of 1398 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $335.00 USD (2024-10-16)
| Integer Math | 15,306 MOps/Sec |
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| Floating Point Math | 11,171 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 29 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 9,337 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 1,221 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 74,995 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 391 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 3,635 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 1,996 MOps/Sec |
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Dell OptiPlex 7010 DT/Core i5-3550 Quad @ 3.3 GHz/2GB DDR3/250GB HDD/DVD-RW/Windows 10 PRO 32 BIT |
$182.67 (www.amazon.com)
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 59,005 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,470 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,114 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 34,595 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,080 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,886 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,259 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,747 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,569 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,155 | |
| Intel Core i5-3550 @ 3.30GHz | 4,802 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 273.92 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 208.44 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 172.34 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 155.32 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 147.52 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 84.58 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 49.48 | |
| Intel Core i5-3550 @ 3.30GHz | 14.33 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,620 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,161 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 4,028 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,903 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,836 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,687 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,470 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,360 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,928 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,567 | |
| Intel Core i5-3550 @ 3.30GHz | 1,996 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL5078124 - Nov 10 2024 | 5381 | |
| BL2234518 - Nov 01 2024 | 5026 | |
| BL5076813 - Oct 26 2024 | 3648 | |
| BL5076788 - Oct 26 2024 | 5359 | |
| BL2227587 - Oct 24 2024 | 4646 |
| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i5-3550 @ 3.30GHz | 4,802 | |
| AMD FX-6200 Six-Core vs Intel Core i5-3550 | 4,085 (-14.9%) | |
| Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.40GHz vs Intel Core i5-3550 | 4,955 (+3.2%) | |
| Intel Core i5-3570 @ 3.40GHz vs Intel Core i5-3550 | 4,932 (+2.7%) | |
| Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.20GHz vs Intel Core i5-3550 | 4,678 (-2.6%) | |
| Intel Core i5-3450 @ 3.10GHz vs Intel Core i5-3550 | 4,503 (-6.2%) | |
| Intel Core i5-4670T @ 2.30GHz vs Intel Core i5-3550 | 4,441 (-7.5%) | |
| Intel Core i5-3475S @ 2.90GHz vs Intel Core i5-3550 | 4,277 (-10.9%) | |
| Intel Core i5-3330S @ 2.70GHz vs Intel Core i5-3550 | 3,889 (-19.0%) | |
| AMD FX-6100 Six-Core vs Intel Core i5-3550 | 3,688 (-23.2%) | |
| Intel Core i5-3470T @ 2.90GHz vs Intel Core i5-3550 | 3,001 (-37.5%) | |
| Intel Pentium Gold G5600 @ 3.90GHz vs Intel Core i5-3550 | 3,840 (-20.0%) | |
| AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core vs Intel Core i5-3550 | 5,260 (+9.5%) |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,249 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 11,272 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,891 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,698 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,330 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF | 10,235 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,873 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 245KF | 9,556 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,467 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 245K | 9,267 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900KS | 9,255 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D | 8,942 | |
| Intel Core i5-3550 @ 3.30GHz | 606 |
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