Intel Core i5-8365U vs Intel Core i7-3820QM

Core i5-8365U vs Core i7-3820QM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3820QM beats the Core i5-8365U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3820QM has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8365U. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8365U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3820QM 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 i5-8365U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.