Intel Core i5-3230M vs Intel Pentium 4417U

Core i5-3230M vs Pentium 4417U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3230M performs better than the Pentium 4417U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 4417U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Pentium 4417U 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-3230M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.