Intel Core i5-10300H vs Intel Pentium Dual E2140

Core i5-10300H vs Pentium Dual E2140 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10300H beats the Pentium Dual E2140 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Dual E2140 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-10300H has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Dual E2140 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Dual E2140. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10300H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Dual E2140. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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.