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General information Core i5-3550 FX-4170
Launched Q1 2012 Q1 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1155 AM3+
Series Name Intel Core i5 AMD FX
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge Zambezi
Clock 3.3 GHz 21.4 % 4.2 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.7 GHz 14 % 4.3 GHz 0 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 77 W 38.4 % 125 W 0 %
Lithography 22 nm 31.3 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 16 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
2 × 2 MB
L3 Cache 1 × 6 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-3550 FX-4170
Overall Score 41991 0 % 37424 10.9 %
Future Proof 28 % 0 % 28 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 3109 0 % 1962 36.9 %
Single Thread Score 2003 0 % 1469.9 26.6 %
Encrypting Data 1209 MB/s 73.2 % 4506.1 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 73.2 MB/s 0 % 49.4 MB/s 32.4 %
String objects sorting 9281.2 thousand/s 0 % 6487.9 thousand/s 30.1 %
Prime numbers generation 28.9 millions/s 0 % 17.8 millions/s 38.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 15293.4 millions/s 0 % 10357 millions/s 32.3 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 11195 millions/s 0 % 5406 millions/s 51.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-3550, FX-4170.

Average frames per second Core i5-3550 FX-4170
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 79.4 FPS 65.9 FPS
High settings 127.1 FPS 105.4 FPS
Medium settings 158.9 FPS 131.7 FPS
Low settings 198.6 FPS 164.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 17.1 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i5-3550 FX-4170
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 124.6 FPS 116.5 FPS
High settings 199.3 FPS 186.4 FPS
Medium settings 249.2 FPS 233.0 FPS
Low settings 311.4 FPS 291.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.5 %
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