Intel Core i5-9300H vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Core i5-9300H vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13420H beats the Core i5-9300H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9300H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13420H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-9300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9300H. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9300H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i5-9300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.