Intel Core i9-9880H vs Intel Core i5-11300H

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4654 points
27% slightly better overall score
3661 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6160 points
1% slightly better gaming score
6054 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4177 points
41% slightly better multitasking score
2962 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4061 points
42% significantly better heavy workload score
2840 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.53 points
98% significantly higher Blender score
64.74 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8752.5 points
32% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
6581 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6191 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4971 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1327 points
1687 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6125 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4876 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1369 points
1675 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
9% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
35 W
28% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

374th of 1,089
468th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i9-9880H vs Core i5-11300H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9880H is faster than the Core i5-11300H. Despite this, the Core i5-11300H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9880H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11300H. The Core i5-11300H outputs less heat than Core i9-9880H thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-9880H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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