Intel Core i5-8265U vs Intel Core 7 150U

Core i5-8265U vs Core 7 150U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 7 150U beats the Core i5-8265U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-8265U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8265U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 7 150U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8265U. The info from our database shows that the Core 7 150U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8265U. The Core 7 150U 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 i5-8265U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.