Intel Core i5-8300H vs Intel Core i7-9750H

Core i5-8300H vs Core i7-9750H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9750H beats the Core i5-8300H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8300H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9750H 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-9750H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8300H. Also, the Core i7-9750H has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-9750H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8300H. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.