Intel Core i5-9300HF vs Intel Core i3-1315U

Core i5-9300HF vs Core i3-1315U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1315U beats the Core i5-9300HF in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9300HF in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-1315U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-9300HF that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9300HF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1315U. Despite this, the Core i3-1315U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i3-1315U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-9300HF. The Core i3-1315U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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