Intel Core i5-4300U vs Intel Core i3-4000M

Core i5-4300U vs Core i3-4000M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4300U beats the Core i3-4000M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4000M 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 i5-4300U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4000M. A Core i5-4300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-4000M CPU because of its 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 i5-4300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.