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General information Core i5-3550S Pentium G3240
Launched Q2 2012 Q2 2014
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1155 FCLGA1150
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Pentium
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge Haswell Refresh
Clock 3 GHz 3.2 % 3.1 GHz 0 %
Cores 4 0 % 2 50 %
Threads 4 0 % 2 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 53 W 18.5 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 22 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 6 MB
1 × 3 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Integrated GPU Intel HD Graphics 2500 Intel HD Graphics
Performance Core i5-3550S Pentium G3240
Overall Score 41157 0 % 33457 18.7 %
Future Proof 30 % 28.6 % 42 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 2869 0 % 1253 56.3 %
Single Thread Score 1956.2 0 % 1748.8 10.6 %
Encrypting Data 1070.5 MB/s 62.9 % 2886.9 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 68 MB/s 0 % 32.1 MB/s 52.8 %
String objects sorting 8932.9 thousand/s 0 % 4489.4 thousand/s 49.7 %
Prime numbers generation 29.3 millions/s 0 % 14 millions/s 52.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 14581 millions/s 0 % 6731.8 millions/s 53.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 10722.6 millions/s 0 % 5256.7 millions/s 51 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-3550S, Pentium G3240.

Average frames per second Core i5-3550S Pentium G3240
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 76.9 FPS 54.2 FPS
High settings 123.1 FPS 86.7 FPS
Medium settings 153.8 FPS 108.3 FPS
Low settings 192.3 FPS 135.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 29.6 %

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 i5-3550S Pentium G3240
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 123.1 FPS 109.5 FPS
High settings 197.0 FPS 175.2 FPS
Medium settings 246.3 FPS 219.0 FPS
Low settings 307.9 FPS 273.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 11.1 %
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