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Intel Core i5-3550 vs Apple M4

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 25 %

Intel Core i5-3550

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 19 %

Intel Core i5-3550

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

724

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

3,767

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,237

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

13,295

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

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

783

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,491

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 2500

110

Apple M4 (10 Core)

4,260

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

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

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3550	Apple M4
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 3000 (31)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	Ivy Bridge S	M4
Technology	22 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1155
Predecessor		Apple M3
Successor		Apple M5

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3550	Apple M4
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	9 / 9
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 3.30 - 3.70 GHz	3x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		6x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.85 GHz
L2-Cache		20.00 MB
L3-Cache	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3550	Apple M4
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 2500	Apple M4 (10 Core)
GPU frequency	0.65 - 1.15 GHz	0.34 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	6 / 48	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	24 GB
Technology	22 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q2/2012	Q2/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3550	Apple M4
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3550	Apple M4
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3550	Apple M4
TDP	77 W	20 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		15 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-3550	Apple M4
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q2/2012	Q2/2024
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 Core i5-3550 is 4.0 stars (3 ratings), while Apple M4 has received 4.2 stars (1061 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Apple M4
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★