Intel Core i7-8750H vs Intel Core i5-3230M

Core i7-8750H vs Core i5-3230M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8750H beats the Core i5-3230M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3230M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-8750H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-3230M that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3230M. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3230M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8750H. Despite this, the Core i7-8750H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3230M outputs less heat than Core i7-8750H thanks to a slightly 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 i7-8750H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.