Intel Core i7-8650U vs Intel Core i5-4590S

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2006 points

2162 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3386 points

4006 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1610 points

1647 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1539 points

1580 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.01 points

45.67 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2710 points

2794 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

895 points

1049 points

17% 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

1.9 GHz

3 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 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

716th of 1,089

693rd 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

2014 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 i7-8650U vs Core i5-4590S specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4590S is faster than the Core i7-8650U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8650U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-8650U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4590S has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8650U. Despite this, the Core i7-8650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8650U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4590S 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 i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.