Intel Core i5-6300U vs Intel Core i5-8250U

Core i5-6300U vs Core i5-8250U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8250U beats the Core i5-6300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8250U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-6300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6300U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6300U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. Despite this, the Core i5-8250U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i5-6300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.