The Core i5-7300HQ has some perks compared to the Core i5-8250U. 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. Top 100 Best Laptops for Apex Legends Top 100 Best Laptops for GTA V Top 100 Best Laptops for Red Dead Redemption 2 Top 100 Best Laptops for ARK: Survival Evolved Top 100 Best Laptops for AC: Odyssey Top 100 Best Laptops for AC Valhalla Top 100 Best Laptops for Battlefield 5 Top 100 Best Laptops for Borderlands 3 Top 100 Best Laptops for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Top 100 Best Laptops for CS:GO Top 100 Best Laptops for Cyberpunk 2077 Top 100 Best Laptops for Darksiders Genesis Top 100 Best Laptops for DOOM Top 100 Best Laptops for DOOM Eternal Top 100 Best Laptops for DOTA 2 Top 100 Best Laptops for PES 2021 Top 100 Best Laptops for Far Cry 5 Top 100 Best Laptops for Far Cry New Dawn Top 100 Best Laptops for FIFA 19 Top 100 Best Laptops for FIFA 20 Top 100 Best Laptops for FIFA 21 Top 100 Best Laptops for For Honor Top 100 Best Laptops for Fortnite Top 100 Best Laptops for Gears 5 Top 100 Best Laptops for Halo: Reach Top 100 Best Laptops for Hearthstone Top 100 Best Laptops for League of Legends Top 100 Best Laptops for Metro Exodus Top 100 Best Laptops for Minecraft Top 100 Best Laptops for Need For Speed Heat Top 100 Best Laptops for Overwatch Top 100 Best Laptops for PES 2020 Top 100 Best Laptops for PUBG Top 100 Best Laptops for Resident Evil 2 Top 100 Best Laptops for Rise of the Tomb Raider Top 100 Best Laptops for Rocket League Top 100 Best Laptops for Shadow of the Tomb Raider Top 100 Best Laptops for Team Fortress 2 Top 100 Best Laptops for The Witcher 3 Top 100 Best Laptops for TC: Wildlands Top 100 Best Laptops for TC: Six Siege Top 100 Best Laptops for Total War: THREE KINGDOMS Top 100 Best Laptops for Warframe Top 100 Best Laptops for World of Tanks

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