Intel Pentium 3556U: specs and benchmarks

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Pentium 3556U
2013
2 cores / 2 threads
0.69

Summary

Intel started Pentium 3556U sales 1 September 2013. This is a Haswell architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 22 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 1700 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA1168 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt and a maximum temperature of 105 °C. It supports DDR3 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 0.69% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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General info

Pentium 3556U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking2580
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium
Architecture codenameHaswell (2013−2015)
Release date1 September 2013 (10 years old)

Technical specs

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads2
Base clock speed1.7 GHzof 4.7 (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed1.7 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache64K (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache256K (per core)of 98304 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
L3 cache2 MB (shared)of 768 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography22 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size118 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cof 110 (Atom x7-E3950)
Maximum case temperature (TCase)105 °C
Number of transistors1,400 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplierNo

Compatibility

Information on Pentium 3556U compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCBGA1168
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Pentium 3556U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology-
Hyper-Threading Technology-
TSX-
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+
SIPP-
Smart Response-
GPIO+
Smart Connect+
FDI-
AMT9.5
Matrix Storage-
StatusDiscontinued
HD Audio+
RST+

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-
EDB+
Secure Key+
Identity Protection-
OS Guard-
Anti-Theft-

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+
VT-d-
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Pentium 3556U's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3
Maximum memory size16 GBof 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sof 460.8 (EPYC 9124)
ECC memory support-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Pentium 3556U.

Integrated graphics cardIntel® HD Graphics for 4th Generation Intel® Processors
Quick Sync Video-
Clear Video+
Clear Video HD-
Graphics max frequency1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium 3556U's integrated GPU.

Number of displays supported3
eDP+
DisplayPort+
HDMI+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version2.0of 5 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes10of 128 (EPYC 7551P)
PCI support-
USB revision3.0
Total number of SATA ports2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2
Integrated IDE-
Number of USB ports4
Integrated LAN-
UART+

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Pentium 3556U. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Pentium 3556U 0.69

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Pentium 3556U 1058

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Pentium 3556U 313

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Pentium 3556U 516

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Pentium 3556U 2515

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Pentium 3556U 4854

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Pentium 3556U 1939

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Pentium 3556U 1

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Pentium 3556U 126

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Pentium 3556U 66

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Pentium 3556U 0.75

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium 3556U 0.2

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium 3556U 1190

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

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x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium 3556U 9

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Pentium 3556U 1467

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Pentium 3556U 2478

Geekbench 2

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Pentium 3556U 3129

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Pentium 3556U performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook CPUs.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Pentium 3556U is Phenom II X3 P820, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 8 positions in our ranking.

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Here are some closest AMD rivals to Pentium 3556U:

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Pentium 3556U 100
A6-1450 98.55
A6-7000 95.65

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Pentium 3556U, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Pentium 3556U in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1379 configurations based on Pentium 3556U in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.3% (4/1379)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.07% (1/1379)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.07% (1/1379)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.1% (2/1379)
TITAN RTX TITAN RTX
0.07% (1/1379)
RTX 2080 GeForce RTX 2080
0.07% (1/1379)
RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060
0.2% (3/1379)
RX 5700 XT Radeon RX 5700 XT
0.07% (1/1379)
RX 6600M Radeon RX 6600M
0.07% (1/1379)

User Ratings

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