Intel Core i5-7200U vs Intel Core i5-8365U

Core i5-7200U vs Core i5-8365U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8365U beats the Core i5-7200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8365U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-7200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7200U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7200U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8365U. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U 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.

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 i5-7200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.