Intel Core i5-9300H vs Intel Core i7-3930K

Core i5-9300H vs Core i7-3930K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3930K beats the Core i5-9300H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-9300H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-3930K has significantly more cores than the Core i5-9300H. Indeed, the Core i7-3930K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-9300H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9300H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3930K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9300H. Despite this, the Core i5-9300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-9300H 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.

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