Intel Core i5-8300H vs Intel Core i7-4980HQ

Core i5-8300H vs Core i7-4980HQ comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8300H is faster than the Core i7-4980HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4980HQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4980HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8300H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i5-8300H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4980HQ CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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