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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus vs Intel Core i5-3550

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
Rank 2 - 89 %
Intel Core i5-3550
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 98 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-3550
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
994
Intel Core i5-3550
4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz
724
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
2,397
Intel Core i5-3550
4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz
2,237
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
731
Intel Core i5-3550
4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz
783
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
2,632
Intel Core i5-3550
4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz
2,741
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
Qualcomm Adreno 640
1,037
Intel Core i5-3550
Intel HD Graphics 2500
110

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At a glance

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 PlusIntel Core i5-3550
FamilyQualcomm Snapdragon (105)Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU groupQualcomm Snapdragon 855/860 (3)Intel Core i 3000 (31)
ArchitectureKryo 485Ivy Bridge S
Technology7 nm22 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletDesktop
SocketLGA 1155
Predecessor
SuccessorQualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 PlusIntel Core i5-3550
CPU Cores / Threads8 / 84 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)normal
Core Cluster 1: 1x Kryo 485 Prime
2.96 GHz
4x
3.30 - 3.70 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 3x Kryo 485 Gold
2.42 GHz
Core Cluster 3: 4x Kryo 485 Silver
1.80 GHz
L2-Cache2.00 MB
L3-Cache3.00 MB6.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 PlusIntel Core i5-3550
GPU nameQualcomm Adreno 640Intel HD Graphics 2500
GPU frequency0.25 - 0.68 GHz0.65 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader4 / 3846 / 48
Raytracing
Max. displays13
Max. GPU Memory4 GB2 GB
Technology7 nm22 nm
Release dateQ1/2019Q2/2012

NPU AI performance

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 PlusIntel Core i5-3550
AI hardwareQualcomm AI engine
AI specificationsHexagon 690 @ 7 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 PlusIntel Core i5-3550
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory12 GB32 GB
Memory channels42
ECCNoNo
PCIe3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 PlusIntel Core i5-3550
TDP77 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 PlusIntel Core i5-3550
Chip designChipletMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsAndroidWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release dateQ4/2018Q2/2012
Release price213 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
Intel Core i5-3550
Intel Core i5-3550
4C / 4T · 3.30 - 3.70 GHz

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