Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Core i5-10300H

Core i9-11900K vs Core i5-10300H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11900K performs better than the Core i5-10300H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10300H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-11900K has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10300H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10300H. Also, the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10300H outputs less heat than Core i9-11900K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-11900K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10300H. The Core i9-11900K also has significantly more 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 i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.