Intel Core i5-4300U vs Intel Core i3-3130M

Core i5-4300U vs Core i3-3130M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4300U beats the Core i3-3130M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-3130M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3130M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4300U. A Core i5-4300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-3130M CPU because of its 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 i5-4300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.