Intel Core i5-4288U vs Intel Core i7-4500U

Core i5-4288U vs Core i7-4500U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4288U 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4288U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4500U. Also, the Core i5-4288U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4500U outputs less heat than Core i5-4288U 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 i5-4288U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.