Intel Core i5-11400T vs Intel Core i5-8250U

Core i5-11400T vs Core i5-8250U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400T is faster than the Core i5-8250U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8250U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-11400T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-8250U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8250U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8250U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11400T. Despite this, the Core i5-11400T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8250U outputs less heat than Core i5-11400T thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-11400T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8250U. The Core i5-11400T also has significantly 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 i5-11400T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.