Intel Core i5-8265U vs Intel Celeron 6305

Core i5-8265U vs Celeron 6305 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8265U is faster than the Celeron 6305. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron 6305 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8265U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Celeron 6305 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron 6305.

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 i5-8265U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.