Intel Core i5-10300H vs Intel Core i7-3960X

Core i5-10300H vs Core i7-3960X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3960X is faster than the Core i5-10300H. Despite this, the Core i5-10300H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3960X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-10300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10300H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10300H. Despite this, the Core i5-10300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10300H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3960X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.