Intel Core i5-4288U vs Intel Core i7-4600U

Core i5-4288U vs Core i7-4600U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4288U is faster than the Core i7-4600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4600U 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 i5-4288U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4600U. Despite this, the Core i7-4600U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4600U 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.

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 i5-4288U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.