This frequency is still 100MHz lower than the Turbo clock of the Core i5-7300HQ. Nonetheless, the engineers at Intel have found their way around and the Core i5-8250U can deliver high performance by boosting up to 3.40GHz when needed. Of course, this is not magic and corners had to be cut to run so many threads with so little power – the base clock of the Core i5-8250U is very low – 1.60GHz it is like a Celeron or Pentium processor while the Core i5-7300HQ is clocked at the reasonable 2.50GHz. That’s three times less power consumption. What really makes the difference is the fact that while the Core i5-7300HQ needs 45W to power its four cores, the Core i5-8250U does the same with Hyper-Threading in mind with just 15W. One similarity is that they are both quad-core processors, however, only the Core i5-8250U supports Intel’s Hyper-Threading technology. There are a lot of differences in the specifications sheets of these two chips but there are also a few important similarities.
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