Intel Core i5-8300H vs Intel Core i9-12900H

Core i5-8300H vs Core i9-12900H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900H is faster than the Core i5-8300H. 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 i9-12900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-8300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8300H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12900H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8300H. Also, the Core i9-12900H 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.

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.