Intel Core i7-8565U vs Intel Core i5-3470

Core i7-8565U vs Core i5-3470 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3470 is faster than the Core i7-8565U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8565U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-8565U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3470 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8565U. Despite this, the Core i7-8565U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8565U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3470 CPU because of its 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 i7-8565U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.