Intel Core i5-10310U Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2024-04-16

The Intel Core i5-10310U has 4 cores with 8 threads and is based on the 10. gen of the Intel Core i5 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1528 socket and was released in Q2/2020. The Intel Core i5-10310U scores 1,131 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 4,255 points.

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Name:	Intel Core i5-10310U
Family:	Intel Core i5 (331)
CPU group:	Intel Core i 10000U (5)
Architecture:	Comet Lake U
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	10
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-10310U has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-10310U is 1.70 GHz (4.40 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	4 / 8
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	4x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	1.70 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	4.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores):	--

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i5-10310U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i5-10310U uses the Intel UHD Graphics (Comet Lake), which has 192 texture shaders and 24 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	Intel UHD Graphics (Comet Lake)
GPU frequency:	0.30 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.15 GHz
Compute units:	24
Shader:	192
Hardware Raytracing:	No
Release date:	Q3/2019

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	9.5
Direct X:	12
Technology:	14 nm
Max. GPU Memory:	32 GB
Frame Generation:	No

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	Decode / Encode
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	Decode / Encode
VP9:	Decode / Encode

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode / Encode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 46.8 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

LPDDR4-2933 LPDDR3-2133 DDR4-2666	46.8 GB/s 34.2 GB/s 42.7 GB/s
Max. Memory:	64 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth:	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 15 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	15 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	25 W
TDP down:	10 W
Tjunction max.:	100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i5-10310U is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 6.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	14 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	BGA 1528
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	6.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date:	Q2/2020
Release price:	297 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	--

Intel Core i5-10310U
4C 8T @ 1.70 GHz (4.40 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i5-10310U have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16C 32T @ 4.40 GHz	1127
	Intel Core i7-10610U 4C 8T @ 4.90 GHz	1124
	Intel Core i7-6700K 4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz	1124
	Intel Core i5-10310U 4C 8T @ 4.40 GHz	1123
	Intel Core i5-10400F 6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz	1120
	Intel Core i5-10400 6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz	1120
	AMD Ryzen 3 5300U 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	1119

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i7-6700HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	4193
	Intel Core i5-1030NG7 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	4189
	Intel Core i7-7820HQ 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	4186
	Intel Core i5-10310U 4C 8T @ 1.70 GHz	4170
	Intel Core i7-6700T 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	4120
	Intel Core i5-8257U 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	4017
	Intel Core i5-10210U 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	4013

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i3-9320 4C 4T @ 4.40 GHz	1132
	Intel Core i5-8600 6C 6T @ 4.20 GHz	1132
	Intel Core i7-9750H 6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz	1132
	Intel Core i5-10310U 4C 8T @ 4.40 GHz	1131
	Intel Xeon Platinum 8260 24C 48T @ 3.90 GHz	1131
	Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	1131
	Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 28C 56T @ 4.00 GHz	1130

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-9500E 6C 6T @ 3.00 GHz	4280
	Intel Core i5-1145G7E 4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz	4274
	AMD Ryzen 3 4100 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	4265
	Intel Core i5-10310U 4C 8T @ 1.70 GHz	4255
	Intel Xeon D-1531 6C 12T @ 2.20 GHz	4255
	Apple A14 Bionic 6C 6T @ 3.00 GHz	4247
	Intel Core i5-1038NG7 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	4236

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Xeon Platinum 8270 26C 52T @ 4.00 GHz	1234
	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz	1233
	Intel Xeon Gold 5218N 16C 32T @ 3.70 GHz	1232
	Intel Core i5-10310U 4C 8T @ 4.40 GHz	1230
	Intel Core i7-5775C 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	1230
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X 12C 24T @ 4.30 GHz	1229
	Intel Xeon E5-2643 v4 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	1228

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Core i7-7820EQ 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	3741
	Intel Core i7-4770 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	3740
	Intel Core i7-8665U 4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz	3732
	Intel Core i5-10310U 4C 8T @ 1.70 GHz	3724
	Intel Xeon E3-1220 v6 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	3721
	Intel Core i5-7600 4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	3719
	AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5475U 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	3714

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i7-9800X 8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz	455
	Intel Core i9-9900X 10C 20T @ 4.50 GHz	455
	Intel Core i9-9920X 12C 24T @ 4.50 GHz	455
	Intel Core i5-10310U 4C 8T @ 4.40 GHz	454
	AMD Ryzen 3 4100 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	454
	AMD Ryzen 3 4300G 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	454
	AMD Ryzen 3 4300GE 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	454

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	1922
	Intel Core i5-1038NG7 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	1922
	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U 6C 6T @ 3.80 GHz	1921
	Intel Core i5-10310U 4C 8T @ 1.70 GHz	1872
	Intel Core i5-1135G7 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	1868
	Intel Core i7-2600K 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	1865
	Intel Core i3-9350KF 4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	1833

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	AMD A8-3800 AMD Radeon HD 6550D @ 0.60 GHz	480
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Qualcomm Adreno 530 @ 0.62 GHz	476
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Adreno 530 @ 0.62 GHz	476
	Intel Core i5-10310U Intel UHD Graphics (Comet Lake) @ 1.15 GHz	461
	Intel Core i9-10880H Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.20 GHz	461
	AMD Ryzen Embedded R2312 AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.20 GHz	461
	AMD Ryzen 3 5125C AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.20 GHz	461

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Core i7-6700HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	6520
	Intel Core i7-4770R 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	6517
	Intel Core i7-970 6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz	6517
	Intel Core i5-10310U 4C 8T @ 1.70 GHz	6502
	Intel Core i7-4820K 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	6500
	Intel Core i7-3770K 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	6474
	AMD Ryzen 3 1200 [12nm] 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	6470

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U 6C 6T @ 2.30 GHz	2065
	Intel Core i7-4790 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	2062
	Intel Core i5-8259U 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	2058
	Intel Core i5-10310U 4C 8T @ 1.70 GHz	2057
	Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	2048
	Intel Core i7-7700T 4C 8T @ 2.90 GHz	2046
	Intel Core i5-9400T 6C 6T @ 1.80 GHz	2028

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
586 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
565 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,488 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,461 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,755 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,703 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
656 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
604 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,042 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,392 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
733 entries

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