Intel Core i5-2430M vs Intel Core m3-7Y30

Core i5-2430M vs Core m3-7Y30 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core m3-7Y30 is faster than the Core i5-2430M. 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2430M has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core m3-7Y30. Also, the Core i5-2430M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core m3-7Y30 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.

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 i5-2430M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.