Intel Core i7-4600U vs Intel Core i7-8500Y

Core i7-4600U vs Core i7-8500Y specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8500Y beats the Core i7-4600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4600U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4600U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8500Y. Despite this, the Core i7-8500Y has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8500Y outputs less heat than Core i7-4600U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.