Intel Core i5-4288U vs Intel N100

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel 4 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

1204 points
1289 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2413 points
2647 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

891 points
928 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

854 points
886 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.44 points
33.61 points
43% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
224% significantly higher clock speed
0.8 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

901st of 1,089
873rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-4288U vs N100 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4288U beats the N100 in overall performance. Despite this, the N100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the N100 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4288U. Indeed, the N100 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4288U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4288U has a significantly higher clock speed than the N100.

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.

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