Intel Core i5-10310U vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-8550U

Price

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$ 1460.00

$ 969.00

$ 491.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2131 points

2% slightly better overall score

2085 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3649 points

3% slightly better gaming score

3523 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1700 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1671 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1625 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1597 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.38 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

43.52 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3094 points

6% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

2914 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.7 GHz

1.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

4 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

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

698th of 1,089

706th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-10310U vs Core i7-8550U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10310U is faster than the Core i7-8550U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10310U. Despite this, the Core i5-10310U 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 more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10310U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.