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Intel Core i7 5500U

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Benchmarks Real world tests of Core i7 5500U vs i3 330M

PCMark 8 Home 3.0 Accelerated Data courtesy FutureMark

Core i7 5500U
2,816
Core i3 330M
1,545

GeekBench 3 (Multi-core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i7 5500U
5,775
Core i3 330M
2,832

GeekBench 3 (Single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i7 5500U
2,743
Core i3 330M
1,300

GeekBench 3 (AES single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i7 5500U
3,570,000 MB/s
Core i3 330M
89,200 MB/s

GeekBench (32-bit) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i7 5500U
5,520
Core i3 330M
2,687

GeekBench (64-bit) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i7 5500U
6,189
Core i3 330M
3,110

PassMark Data courtesy Passmark

Core i7 5500U
4,002
Core i3 330M
1,793

PassMark (Single Core)

Core i7 5500U
1,563
Core i3 330M
753

Specifications Full list of technical specs

summary

 Core i7 5500U  vs
i3 330M 
Clock speed 2.4 GHz 2.13 GHz
Cores Dual core Dual core
Is unlocked No No

features
Has a NX bit Yes Yes
Supports trusted computing No No
Has virtualization support Yes Yes
Instruction set extensions
SSE2
MMX
SSE4
AVX
SSE3
SSE
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
Supplemental SSE3
AES
AVX 2.0
Supports dynamic frequency scaling Yes Yes

power consumption
TDP 15W 35W
Annual home energy cost 3.61 $/year 8.43 $/year
Performance per watt 46.04 pt/W 2.8 pt/W
Typical power consumption 12.19W 28.44W

bus
Architecture DMI 2.0 DMI
Number of links 1 1
Transfer rate 5,000 MT/s 2,500 MT/s

details

 Core i7 5500U  vs
i3 330M 
Architecture x86-64 x86-64
Threads 4 4
L2 cache 0.5 MB 1 MB
L2 cache per core 0.25 MB/core 0.5 MB/core
L3 cache 4 MB 3 MB
L3 cache per core 2 MB/core 1.5 MB/core
Manufacture process 14 nm 32 nm
Max CPUs 1 1

overclocking
Overclocked clock speed 2.92 GHz 2.34 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Water) 2.4 GHz 2.13 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Air) 2.92 GHz 2.34 GHz

integrated graphics
GPU GPU GPU
Label Intel® HD Graphics 5500 Intel® HD Graphics
Number of displays supported 3 2
GPU clock speed 300 MHz 500 MHz
Turbo clock speed 950 MHz 667 MHz

memory controller
Memory controller Built-in Built-in
Memory type
DDR3-1600
DDR3-1066
DDR3
DDR3-800
Channels Dual Channel Dual Channel
Maximum bandwidth 25,600 MB/s 17,066.66 MB/s
Maximum memory size 16,384 MB 8,192 MB
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