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Intel Pentium B970 vs Intel Core i5-8400H

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 36 %
Intel Pentium B970
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-8400H
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 19 %
Intel Pentium B970
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-8400H
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Pentium B970
2C / 2T · 2.30 GHz
401
Intel Core i5-8400H
4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz
1,296
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Pentium B970
2C / 2T · 2.30 GHz
711
Intel Core i5-8400H
4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz
3,826
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Pentium B970
2C / 2T · 2.30 GHz
435
Intel Core i5-8400H
4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz
1,081
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Pentium B970
2C / 2T · 2.30 GHz
862
Intel Core i5-8400H
4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz
3,534
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Pentium B970
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
110
Intel Core i5-8400H
Intel HD Graphics 630
422

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Intel Pentium B970Intel Core i5-8400H
FamilyIntel Pentium (150)Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU groupIntel Pentium 900 (10)Intel Core i 8000H (6)
ArchitectureSandy Bridge UCoffee Lake H
Technology32 nm14 nm
SegmentNotebookNotebook
SocketPGA 988BGA 1440
Predecessor
SuccessorIntel Core i5-9400H

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Pentium B970Intel Core i5-8400H
CPU Cores / Threads2 / 24 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 2x 4x
Frequency: 2.30 GHz 2.50 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 4.20 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 3.70 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache2.00 MB8.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Pentium B970Intel Core i5-8400H
GPU nameIntel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)Intel HD Graphics 630
GPU frequency0.65 - 1.15 GHz0.30 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader6 / 4824 / 192
Raytracing
Max. displays23
Max. GPU Memory2 GB64 GB
Technology32 nm14 nm
Release dateQ2/2011Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

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Intel Pentium B970Intel Core i5-8400H
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Pentium B970Intel Core i5-8400H
MemoryDDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)
DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory16 GB64 GB
Memory channels22
ECCNoNo
PCIe2.0 x 163.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth8.0 GB/s15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Intel Pentium B970Intel Core i5-8400H
TDP35 W45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.85 °C

Technical details

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Intel Pentium B970Intel Core i5-8400H
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release dateQ1/2012Q2/2018
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

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Intel Pentium B970
Intel Pentium B970
2C / 2T · 2.30 GHz
Intel Core i5-8400H
Intel Core i5-8400H
4C / 8T · 2.50 - 4.20 GHz

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