Intel Core i7-8700T vs Intel Core i5-9300H

Core i7-8700T vs Core i5-9300H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9300H 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 i5-9300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9300H. Both the Core i7-8700T and Core i5-9300H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-9300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8700T CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-9300H CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-8700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.