Intel Core i7-8665U vs Intel Core i5-3380M

Core i7-8665U vs Core i5-3380M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8665U is faster than the Core i5-3380M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3380M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8665U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-3380M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3380M. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3380M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8665U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3380M 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 i7-8665U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.