Intel Core i7-8700T vs Intel Core i5-8300H

Core i7-8700T vs Core i5-8300H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8300H beats the Core i7-8700T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8700T 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8300H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Core i7-8700T CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8300H CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-8700T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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 i7-8700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.