Intel Core i5-650 vs Intel Core i7-4500U

Core i5-650 vs Core i7-4500U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4500U is faster than the Core i5-650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-650 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-650 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4500U. Also, the Core i5-650 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4500U outputs less heat than Core i5-650 thanks to a 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 i5-650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.