Intel Core i5-8350U vs Intel Core i7-7500U

Core i5-8350U vs Core i7-7500U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8350U beats the Core i7-7500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-8350U has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-7500U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7500U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8350U. Despite this, the Core i5-8350U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.