Intel Core i5-3230M vs Intel Core i7-4510U

Core i5-3230M vs Core i7-4510U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3230M beats the Core i7-4510U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4510U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3230M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4510U. Also, the Core i5-3230M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4510U 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.

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 i5-3230M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.