Intel Core i5-2430M vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Core i5-2430M vs Core i7-5500U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5500U beats the Core i5-2430M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2430M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-2430M and Core i7-5500U are identical in this regard. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-5500U outputs less heat than Core i5-2430M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i5-2430M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.