Intel Core i3-8145U vs Intel Core i5-5300U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1551.00
$ 325.00 slightly less expensive
$ 1876.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1199 points
3% slightly better overall score
1153 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2335 points
2% slightly better gaming score
2272 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

894 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
860 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

855 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
826 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.95 points
24.25 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1575 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1558 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

794 points
813 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.3 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
34% slightly higher turbo speed
2.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
33% slightly more pcie lanes
12

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
16 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
Identical
128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
Identical
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

930th of 1,121
938th of 1,121

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3
5th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August
2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-8145U vs Core i5-5300U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-8145U is faster than the Core i5-5300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5300U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-5300U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8145U. Despite this, the Core i3-8145U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i3-8145U also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-8145U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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