Intel Core i5-8300H vs Intel Core i7-3930K

Core i5-8300H vs Core i7-3930K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3930K is faster than the Core i5-8300H. Despite this, the Core i5-8300H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3930K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-8300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8300H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3930K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8300H. Despite this, the Core i5-8300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8300H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3930K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-8300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.