Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Core i5-4570

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

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Intel Core i5-4570

Price

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$ 1527.00

$ 82.01

$ 1444.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1907 points

2177 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3207 points

4010 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1532 points

1662 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points

1595 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1696 points

2856 points

68% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.03 points

42.40 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1971 points

2948 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

771 points

1033 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

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

3.2 GHz

100% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

459% significantly lower TDP

84 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

687th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8250U vs Core i5-4570 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4570 is faster than the Core i5-8250U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8250U 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4570 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. Also, the Core i5-4570 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8250U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4570 CPU because of its 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.