Intel Core i5-8265U vs Intel Core i5-4590S

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4590S

Price

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$ 1924.93

$ 198.95

$ 1725.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2174 points

0.56% slightly better overall score

2162 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3802 points

4006 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1707 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1647 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1627 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1580 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.15 points

45.67 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2272 points

2794 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

720 points

1049 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz

3 GHz

87% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

688th of 1,089

692nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8265U vs Core i5-4590S specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4590S is faster than the Core i5-8265U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8265U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-8265U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4590S has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8265U. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8265U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4590S CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-8265U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.