Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Core i9-14900HX

Core i5-8250U vs Core i9-14900HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900HX beats the Core i5-8250U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8250U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i5-8250U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8250U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-14900HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8250U. Also, the Core i9-14900HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8250U. The Core i9-14900HX also has significantly more 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.