Intel Core i5-10300H vs Intel Core i7-9750HF

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Intel Core i5-10300H CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Core i7-9750HF
Intel Core i5-10300H Intel Core i7-9750HF

CPU comparison

In this CPU comparison, we compare the Intel Core i5-10300H and the Intel Core i7-9750HF and use benchmarks to check which processor is faster.

We compare the Intel Core i5-10300H 4 core processor released in Q2/2020 with the Intel Core i7-9750HF which has 6 CPU cores and was introduced in Q2/2019.
Intel Core i5 (328) Family Intel Core i7 (293)
Intel Core i 10000H (11) CPU group Intel Core i 9000H (11)
10 Generation 9
Comet Lake H Architecture Coffee Lake H Refresh
Mobile Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-10300H is a 4 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.50 GHz (4.50 GHz). The processor can compute 8 threads at the same time. The Intel Core i7-9750HF clocks with 2.60 GHz (4.50 GHz), has 6 CPU cores and can calculate 12 threads in parallel.

Intel Core i5-10300H Characteristic Intel Core i7-9750HF
4 Cores 6
8 Threads 12
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.50 GHz Frequency 2.60 GHz
4.50 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 4.50 GHz
4.20 GHz Turbo Frequency (All Cores) 3.20 GHz

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.

Intel Core i5-10300H Characteristic Intel Core i7-9750HF
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-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

Graphics (iGPU) integrated into the processor not only enable image output without having to rely on a dedicated graphics solution, but can also efficiently accelerate video playback.

Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU no iGPU
0.35 GHz GPU frequency --
1.10 GHz GPU (Turbo) --
9.5 GPU Generation --
14 nm Technology
3 Max. displays
24 Compute units --
192 Shader --
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
64 GB Max. GPU Memory --
12 DirectX Version --

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.

Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU no iGPU
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
Decode / Encode Codec h264 No
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 No
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC No
Decode Codec VC-1 No
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG No

Memory & PCIe

Up to 128 GB of memory in a maximum of 2 memory channels is supported by the Intel Core i5-10300H, while the Intel Core i7-9750HF supports a maximum of 128 GB of memory with a maximum memory bandwidth of 42.7 GB/s enabled.

Intel Core i5-10300H Characteristic Intel Core i7-9750HF
DDR4-2933 Memory DDR4-2666
128 GB Max. Memory 128 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
45.8 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 42.7 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
8.00 MB L3 Cache 12.00 MB
3.0 PCIe version 3.0
16 PCIe lanes 16
15.8 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The Intel Core i5-10300H has a TDP of 45 W. The TDP of the Intel Core i7-9750HF is 45 W. System integrators use the TDP of the processor as a guide when dimensioning the cooling solution.

Intel Core i5-10300H Characteristic Intel Core i7-9750HF
45 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 45 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
35 W TDP down 35 W
100 °C Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i5-10300H has 8.00 MB cache and is manufactured in 14 nm. The cache of Intel Core i7-9750HF is at 12.00 MB. The processor is manufactured in 14 nm.

Intel Core i5-10300H Characteristic Intel Core i7-9750HF
14 nm Technology 14 nm
Monolithic Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
BGA 1440 Socket BGA 1440
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q2/2020 Release date Q2/2019
250 $ Release price 390 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 5 CPU benchmarks
⌀ Multi core performance in 9 CPU benchmarks

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.
Intel Core i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
1147 (100%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
1113 (97%)

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 i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
5073 (73%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
6912 (100%)

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 i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
1201 (100%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
1132 (94%)

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 i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
4510 (88%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
5149 (100%)

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 Core i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
1467 (100%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
1354 (92%)

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 i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
4637 (82%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
5679 (100%)

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 i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
456 (100%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
441 (97%)

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.
Intel Core i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
2125 (80%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
2653 (100%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.
Intel Core i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
67 (65%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
103 (100%)

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 i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
8580 (78%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
11055 (100%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
Intel Core i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
502 (100%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
307 (61%)

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.
Intel Core i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
2130 (73%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 2.60 GHz
2898 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 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 i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
189 (100%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
184 (97%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 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 i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
841 (71%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
1182 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Core i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
64 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Core i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
397 (100%)

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.
Intel Core i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz
422 (100%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-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.
Intel Core i5-10300H Intel Core i5-10300H
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
456 (100%)
Intel Core i7-9750HF Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

Intel Core i5-10300H Intel Core i7-9750HF
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