Intel Pentium 5405U vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

Pentium 5405U vs Core 2 Duo E8500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium 5405U beats the Core 2 Duo E8500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Pentium 5405U has more threads. A Pentium 5405U CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Pentium 5405U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.