Intel Core i5-8400 vs Intel Core i5-2300

Core i5-8400 vs Core i5-2300 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8400 is faster than the Core i5-2300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8400 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-2300 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2300. Both the Core i5-8400 and Core i5-2300 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2300 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. For instance, the Core i5-8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.