Intel Core i3-10300 vs Intel Core i5-9600

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Price

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$ 159.99
$ 128.37 significantly less expensive
$ 288.36

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3697 points
3841 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5880 points
6445 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3053 points
3064 points
0.36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2936 points
2938 points
0.07% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4527 points
5432 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1156 points
1487 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4824 points
5073 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1520 points
1541 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
33% slightly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
4.6 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
Identical
128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
1.5 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
9 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

476th of 1,110
463rd of 1,110

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i3
9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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