Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Core i5-10300H

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 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

1907 points
3019 points
58% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3207 points
4851 points
51% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1532 points
2479 points
61% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points
2378 points
62% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1696 points
2972 points
75% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.03 points
63.60 points
67% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3194 points
5106 points
59% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1971 points
4001 points
102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

771 points
1338 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz
2.50 GHz
56% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4.5 GHz
32% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
200% significantly lower TDP
45 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
16
33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
Identical
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

738th of 1,089
537th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5
10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
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 i5-8250U vs Core i5-10300H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10300H is faster than the Core i5-8250U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8250U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10300H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. Also, the Core i5-10300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8250U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-10300H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-10300H also has slightly 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 i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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