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In short — Core i5-8500 outperforms Pentium 3556U on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both CPUs to compare value. The better performing Core i5-8500 is 1627 days newer than Pentium 3556U.
Advantages of Intel Pentium 3556U
- Consumes up to 77% less energy than Intel Core i5-8500 - 15 vs 65 Watts
Advantages of Intel Core i5-8500
- Performs up to 18% better in Sea of Thieves than Pentium 3556U - 235 vs 199 FPS
- Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Pentium 3556U - 6 vs 2 threads
Sea of Thieves
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1920 x 1080
Game Graphics
Mythical
Core i5-8500
Desktop • Feb 14th, 2018
FPS
235
100%
Value, $/FPS
$0.74/FPS
100%
Price, $
$174.96
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Intel® Core™ i5-8500 Desktop Processor 6 Core up to 4.1GHz Turbo LGA1151 300 Series 65W
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Game Graphics
Mythical
Pentium 3556U
Mobile • Sep 1st, 2013
Core i5-8500
Desktop • Feb 14th, 2018
Geekbench 5 Benchmarks
Intel Pentium 3556U | vs | Intel Core i5-8500 |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1st, 2013 | Release Date | Feb 14th, 2018 |
| Pentium | Collection | Core i5 |
| Haswell | Codename | Coffee Lake |
| Intel BGA 1168 | Socket | Intel Socket 1151 |
Mobile | Segment | Desktop |
| 2 | Cores | 6 |
| 2 | Threads | 6 |
| 1.7 GHz | Base Clock Speed | 3.0 GHz |
| Non-Turbo | Turbo Clock Speed | 4.1 GHz |
15 W | TDP | 65 W |
| 22 nm | Process Size | 14 nm |
| 17.0x | Multiplier | 30.0x |
| Intel HD | Integrated Graphics | UHD Graphics 630 |
| No | Overclockable | No |
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