Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Core i5-4590T

Core i5-8250U vs Core i5-4590T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8250U is faster than the Core i5-4590T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4590T in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-8250U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4590T has a slightly 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 i5-4590T 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.