Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Core i5-3350P

Core i5-8250U vs Core i5-3350P benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8250U performs better than the Core i5-3350P. Despite this, the Core i5-3350P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i5-3350P 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 i5-3350P CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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.