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Intel Atom Z3735F vs Intel Core i5-3550

Last updated: 2026-03-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 22 %

Intel Atom Z3735F

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-3550

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 17 %

Intel Atom Z3735F

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-3550

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 1.83 GHz

146

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

724

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 1.83 GHz

392

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,237

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 1.83 GHz

186

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

783

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 1.83 GHz

588

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,741

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)

Intel HD Graphics 2500

110

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3735F	Intel Core i5-3550
Family	Intel Atom (108)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Atom Z3700 (16)	Intel Core i 3000 (31)
Architecture	Bay Trail	Ivy Bridge S
Technology	22 nm	22 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	BGA 592	LGA 1155
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3735F	Intel Core i5-3550
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	1.33 GHz	3.30 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	1.83 GHz	3.70 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	1.83 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	2.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3735F	Intel Core i5-3550
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)	Intel HD Graphics 2500
GPU frequency	0.31 - 0.65 GHz	0.65 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 32	6 / 48
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	2 GB
Technology	22 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q3/2013	Q2/2012

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3735F	Intel Core i5-3550
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3735F	Intel Core i5-3550
Memory	DDR3L-1333 (10.6 GB/s)	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	2 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3735F	Intel Core i5-3550
TDP	4 W	77 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3735F	Intel Core i5-3550
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems		Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q1/2014	Q2/2012
Release price		213 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Atom Z3735F is 2.9 stars (15 ratings), while Intel Core i5-3550 has received 4.0 stars (3 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Atom Z3735F
4C / 4T · 1.33 - 1.83 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-3550
4C / 4T · 3.30 - 3.70 GHz

★★★★★