Intel Core i5-3230M vs Intel Core i7-4500U

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1086 points

12% slightly better overall score

965 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2128 points

14% slightly better gaming score

1856 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

812 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

729 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

780 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

700 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

15.89 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1041 points

1416 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points

754 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1017 points

1562 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

505 points

821 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

927th of 1,089

961st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3230M vs Core i7-4500U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3230M is faster than the Core i7-4500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4500U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3230M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4500U. Also, the Core i5-3230M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4500U outputs less heat than Core i5-3230M 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 i5-3230M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.