Intel Core i5-10300H vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Core i5-10300H vs Core i7 X 980 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10300H is faster than the Core i7 X 980. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 980 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 X 980 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7 X 980 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10300H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10300H

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 i5-10300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.