Intel Core i5-8365U vs Intel Core i5-4300U

Core i5-8365U vs Core i5-4300U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8365U is faster than the Core i5-4300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8365U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4300U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8365U. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U 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 i5-8365U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.