Intel Pentium 3556U vs Intel Core i3-4005U

Intel Pentium 3556U
Intel BGA1168MOBILE
1700 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2013
Intel Pentium 3556U
Intel Core i3-4005U
Intel BGA1168MOBILE
1700 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2013
Intel Core i3-4005U

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    153%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    105%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    179%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium 3556U

None

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-4005U

5% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 79% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 53% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core i3-4005U

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i3-4005U

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i3-4005U

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i3-4005U

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

Intel Pentium 3556UIntel Core i3-4005U
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
EIST
64-bit
XD bit
VT-x
Smart Cache
AVX
Intel 64
TXT
VT-d
Hyper-Threading
AES-NI

Architecture

Intel Pentium 3556UIntel Core i3-4005U
ArchitectureIntel_HaswellvsIntel_Haswell
MarketMobilevsMobile
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR3
CodenameHaswellvsHaswell
Release DateSep 2013vsSep 2013

Cores

Intel Pentium 3556UIntel Core i3-4005U
Cores2vs2
Threads2vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsIntel HDvsIntel HD 4400

Cache

Intel Pentium 3556UIntel Core i3-4005U
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache2048 KB (shared)vs3072 KB (shared)

Physical

Intel Pentium 3556UIntel Core i3-4005U
SocketIntel BGA1168vsIntel BGA1168
Max Case Temp105°Cvsunknown
PackageFC-BGA1168vsFC-BGA1168
Die Size118mm²vs118mm²
Process22 nmvs22 nm

Performance

Intel Pentium 3556UIntel Core i3-4005U
Cpu Frequency1700 MHzvs1700 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP15 Wvs15 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    1904 points
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    1904 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    3808 points
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    4569 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Multi Core)

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    2450
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    3239

points - higher is better

GeekBench 3 (32-bit Single Core)

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    1413
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    1567

points - higher is better

3DMark06 CPU

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    1939
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    2211

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    2515
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    2514

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    4854
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    5706

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64Bit

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    0.75
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    0.76

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    1.43
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    1.85

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    65.5
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    68

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    125.5
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    172

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    22.45
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    21.87

seconds - lower is better

wPrime 32

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    46.23
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    29.2

seconds - lower is better

WinRAR 4.0

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    1190
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    1853

MB/s - higher is better

x264 Pass 1

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    49.2
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    57.64

FPS - higher is better

x264 Pass 2

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    9.1
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    10.94

FPS - higher is better

TrueCrypt AES

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    0.15
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    1

GB/s

TrueCrypt Twofish

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    0.12
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    0.16

GB/s

TrueCrypt Serpent

  • Intel Pentium 3556U
    0.07
  • Intel Core i3-4005U
    0.09

GB/s