Intel Core i5-10300H vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3019 points
3089 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4851 points
14% slightly better gaming score
4251 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2479 points
2707 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points
2617 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.60 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
52.64 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz
3.46 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
12 MiB
1100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

537th of 1,089
527th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-10300H vs Core i7 X 990 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 X 990 beats the Core i5-10300H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10300H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-10300H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10300H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 X 990 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10300H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10300H

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.

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