Intel Core i5-7300U vs Intel Core i5-3230M

Core i5-7300U vs Core i5-3230M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3230M is faster than the Core i5-7300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-7300U and Core i5-3230M are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-7300U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7300U 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.