Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Celeron N4500

Core i5-8250U vs Celeron N4500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8250U is faster than the Celeron N4500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-8250U has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Celeron N4500 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron N4500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron N4500. The Celeron N4500 outputs less heat than Core i5-8250U thanks to a 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 i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.