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General information Core i5-3550 Core i5-6500T
Launched Q1 2012 Q4 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA1155 LGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Ivy Bridge Skylake-S
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 2.5 GHz 24.2 %
Turbo Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.1 GHz 16.2 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 77 W 0 % 35 W 54.5 %
Lithography 22 nm 0 % 14 nm 36.4 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 4 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 6 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Integrated GPU Intel HD Graphics 2500 Intel HD Graphics 530
Performance Core i5-3550 Core i5-6500T
Overall Score 41991 0 % 41930 0.1 %
Future Proof 28 % 44 % 50 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 3109 0 % 3091 0.6 %
Single Thread Score 2003 0 % 1791.8 10.5 %
Encrypting Data 1209 MB/s 16 % 1439.8 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 73.2 MB/s 0 % 62.7 MB/s 14.3 %
String objects sorting 9281.2 thousand/s 0 % 8049.1 thousand/s 13.3 %
Prime numbers generation 28.9 millions/s 0 % 25.1 millions/s 13 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 15293.4 millions/s 0 % 12355.5 millions/s 19.2 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 11195 millions/s 0 % 10562.4 millions/s 5.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-3550, Core i5-6500T.

Average frames per second Core i5-3550 Core i5-6500T
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 79.4 FPS 79.2 FPS
High settings 127.1 FPS 126.8 FPS
Medium settings 158.9 FPS 158.5 FPS
Low settings 198.6 FPS 198.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.2 %

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 Core i5-6500T
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 124.6 FPS 124.5 FPS
High settings 199.3 FPS 199.2 FPS
Medium settings 249.2 FPS 249.0 FPS
Low settings 311.4 FPS 311.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 0.1 %
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