Core i5-7300U vs Core i5-3470S benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3470S beats the Core i5-7300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300U in all gaming tests too.
With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-3470S has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-7300U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-3470S has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300U. Also, the Core i5-3470S has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3470S CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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