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Intel Xeon Silver 4116 vs Intel Core i5-3550

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 1 - 100 %

Intel Xeon Silver 4116

Rank 2 - 81 %

Intel Core i5-3550

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Xeon Silver 4116

Rank 2 - 33 %

Intel Core i5-3550

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 24T · 3.00 GHz

1,031

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

724

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 24T · 2.60 GHz

6,538

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,237

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

12C / 24T · 3.00 GHz

856

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

783

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

12C / 24T · 2.60 GHz

8,117

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,741

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 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

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Xeon Silver 4116	Intel Core i5-3550
Family	Intel Xeon Silver (32)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Xeon Silver 4100 (8)	Intel Core i 3000 (31)
Architecture	Skylake SP	Ivy Bridge S
Technology	14 nm	22 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 3647	LGA 1155
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Xeon Silver 4216

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Xeon Silver 4116	Intel Core i5-3550
CPU Cores / Threads	12 / 24	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	12x	4x
Frequency:	2.10 GHz	3.30 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.00 GHz	3.70 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.60 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	16.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Xeon Silver 4116	Intel Core i5-3550
GPU name	no iGPU	Intel HD Graphics 2500
GPU frequency		0.65 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	6 / 48
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		3
Max. GPU Memory		2 GB
Technology		22 nm
Release date		Q2/2012

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Xeon Silver 4116	Intel Core i5-3550
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Xeon Silver 4116	Intel Core i5-3550
Memory	DDR4-2400 (115.2 GB/s)	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	768 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	6	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	3.0 x 48	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	47.3 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Xeon Silver 4116	Intel Core i5-3550
TDP	85 W	77 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Xeon Silver 4116	Intel Core i5-3550
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q3/2017	Q2/2012
Release price	1100 $	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 Xeon Silver 4116 is 0 stars (0 ratings), while Intel Core i5-3550 has received 4.0 stars (3 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Xeon Silver 4116
12C / 24T · 2.10 - 3.00 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★