Intel Core i5-4300U vs Intel Core i5-3230M

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

972 points

1086 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1897 points

2128 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

726 points

812 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

696 points

780 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.06 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

17.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1465 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

782 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

523 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1469 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1017 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

789 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

505 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz

2.6 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.9 GHz

3.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

35 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

959th of 1,089

927th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-4300U vs Core i5-3230M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3230M is faster than the Core i5-4300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4300U 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 i5-3230M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4300U. Also, the Core i5-3230M has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-4300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3230M 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.