Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Celeron 6305

Core i7-8550U vs Celeron 6305 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8550U beats the Celeron 6305 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron 6305 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8550U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Celeron 6305 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron 6305.

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 i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.