Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Core i5-4430

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4430

Price

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$ 969.00

$ 99.71

$ 869.29 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2085 points

10% slightly better overall score

1887 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3523 points

1% slightly better gaming score

3475 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1671 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

1443 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1597 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

1388 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

41.96 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2622 points

2730 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

878 points

948 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz

3 GHz

66% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

459% significantly lower TDP

84 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

706th of 1,089

745th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8550U vs Core i5-4430 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8550U beats the Core i5-4430 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4430 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-8550U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4430 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4430 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.