Intel Core i5-8350U vs Intel Core i7-2820QM

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

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Intel Core i7-2820QM

Price

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$ 989.00

$ 229.95

$ 759.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1943 points

2212 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3266 points

3474 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1565 points

1842 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1497 points

1774 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.73 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

26.94 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.7 GHz

2.3 GHz

35% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

45 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

728th of 1,089

680th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8350U vs Core i7-2820QM comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8350U is faster than the Core i7-2820QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2820QM in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2820QM has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8350U. Despite this, the Core i5-8350U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8350U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-2820QM CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i5-8350U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.