Intel Core i5-8400T vs Intel Core 7 150U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 1) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2711 points

2898 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4534 points

7% slightly better gaming score

4205 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2166 points

2534 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2082 points

2452 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.18 points

84.75 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3918 points

7276 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1115 points

2112 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.7 GHz

1.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

5.4 GHz

63% significantly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

96 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

6.5 MiB

333% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

12 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

587th of 1,089

554th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8400T vs Core 7 150U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8400T beats the Core 7 150U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 150U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-8400T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8400T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 7 150U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8400T. Also, the Core 7 150U has a significantly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core 7 150U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8400T. The Core 7 150U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i5-8400T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.