Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Core i5-6500TE

Core i5-8250U vs Core i5-6500TE benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8250U is faster than the Core i5-6500TE. Despite this, the Core i5-6500TE has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i5-6500TE 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 i5-6500TE 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.