Intel Core i5-2450M vs Intel Core i5-4200U

Core i5-2450M vs Core i5-4200U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2450M beats the Core i5-4200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4200U 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 i5-2450M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4200U. Also, the Core i5-2450M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4200U outputs less heat than Core i5-2450M 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 i5-2450M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.