Intel Core i5-8365U vs Intel Core i3-1315U

Core i5-8365U vs Core i3-1315U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1315U beats the Core i5-8365U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8365U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-1315U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-8365U that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8365U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1315U. Despite this, the Core i3-1315U has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i5-8365U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.