Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Core i5-2300

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-2300

Price

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$ 1527.00

$ 35.00

$ 1492.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1907 points

9% slightly better overall score

1738 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3207 points

3210 points

0.09% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1532 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

1327 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

1273 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.03 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

25.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1971 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1515 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

771 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

516 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz

2.8 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

738th of 1,089

769th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8250U vs Core i5-2300 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8250U beats the Core i5-2300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2300 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-8250U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8250U. Despite this, the Core i5-8250U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8250U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2300 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 i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.