Intel Core i5-7300U vs Intel Core i7-8565U

Core i5-7300U vs Core i7-8565U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8565U 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-8565U has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-7300U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7300U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8565U. Despite this, the Core i7-8565U 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.

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.