Intel Core i5-10400F vs Intel Core i5-10300H

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 4 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

4847 points
60% significantly better overall score
3019 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6648 points
37% slightly better gaming score
4851 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4269 points
72% significantly better multitasking score
2479 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4133 points
73% significantly better heavy workload score
2378 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4768 points
60% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
2972 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.48 points
75% significantly higher Blender score
63.60 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5783 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4001 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1414 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1338 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5782 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4049 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1454 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1380 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.5 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

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

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

359th of 1,089
537th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-10400F vs Core i5-10300H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10400F is faster than the Core i5-10300H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10300H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-10400F 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10400F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10300H. Despite this, the Core i5-10300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10300H outputs less heat than Core i5-10400F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-10400F has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10300H. The Core i5-10400F also has significantly more L3 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 i5-10400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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