Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Core i7-6650U

Core i5-8250U vs Core i7-6650U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8250U is faster than the Core i7-6650U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6650U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8250U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-6650U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6650U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6650U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.