Intel Core i5-2450M vs Intel Core m3-7Y30

Core i5-2450M vs Core m3-7Y30 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2450M beats the Core m3-7Y30 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core m3-7Y30 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 i5-2450M has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core m3-7Y30. Also, the Core i5-2450M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core m3-7Y30 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.