Intel Core i3-10100 vs Intel Core i5-8400H

Core i3-10100 vs Core i5-8400H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-10100 is faster than the Core i5-8400H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8400H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-10100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8400H. Also, the Core i3-10100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8400H outputs less heat than Core i3-10100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-8400H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-10100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.