Intel Core i5-7300U vs Intel Core i5-4690

Core i5-7300U vs Core i5-4690 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4690 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-4690 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-7300U. Indeed, the Core i5-4690 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-7300U. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-4690 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300U. Also, the Core i5-4690 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4690 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.