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

Core i7-8650U vs Core i5-4590T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8650U beats the Core i5-4590T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4590T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-8650U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4590T has a slightly 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 i5-4590T CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-8650U also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.