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Core i3-9100 vs i5-9300H


Description
Both models i3-9100 and i5-9300H are based on Coffee Lake architecture.

Coffee Lake is the second refinement of Intel’s 14nm (Tri-Gate) technology. While it uses LGA1151 socket, it is incompatible with previous generations due to electrical changes in socket’s pins so these CPUs require Z370 chipset. This kind of generation introduced more cores in every range to compete with new AMD’s architecture. Coffee Lake uses DDR4 memory at 2400MHz for i3 and at 2666MHz for i5, i7 CPUs plus iGPU frequency has been increased 50MHz with respect to previous generation.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i3-9100 gets a score of 229.2 k points while the i5-9300H gets 244.1 k points.

Summarizing, the i5-9300H is 1.1 times faster than the i3-9100. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906eb
906ea
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Coffee Lake-H
Architecture
Base frecuency
3.6 GHz
2.4 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.2 GHz
4.1 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
FCBGA1440
Cores/Threads
4/4
4/8
TDP
65 W
45 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
4x32+4x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
4x256 kB
Cache L3
6144 kB
8192 kB
Date
April 2019
April 2019
Mean monothread perf.
66.74k points
67.57k points
Mean multithread perf.
229.2k points
244.1k points

Non-optimized benchmark
The benchmark in Mode 0 (FPU) measures cpu performance with non-optimized software. It uses the basic µinstructions from the i386 architecture with the i387 floating point unit. This mode is compatible with all CPUs so it's practical to compare very different CPUs
Monothread
i3-9100
i5-9300H
Test#1 (Integers)
4.3k
3.38k (x0.79)
Test#2 (FP)
17.79k
12.84k (x0.72)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.58k
4.6k (x0.83)
Test#1 (Memory)
8.86k
6.23k (x0.7)
TOTAL
36.53k
27.05k (x0.74)

Multithread

i3-9100

i5-9300H
Test#1 (Integers)
15.99k
11.6k (x0.73)
Test#2 (FP)
66.31k
48.01k (x0.72)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
20.75k
17.05k (x0.82)
Test#1 (Memory)
4.44k
3.88k (x0.87)
TOTAL
107.49k
80.54k (x0.75)

AVX2 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode III (AVX2), like AVX1, is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the second version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX2 compatible CPU was released in 2013.
Monothread
i3-9100
i5-9300H
Test#1 (Integers)
28.03k
26.62k (x0.95)
Test#2 (FP)
24.5k
23.38k (x0.95)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.73k
5.52k (x0.96)
Test#1 (Memory)
8.48k
12.05k (x1.42)
TOTAL
66.74k
67.57k (x1.01)

Multithread

i3-9100

i5-9300H
Test#1 (Integers)
107.5k
107.95k (x1)
Test#2 (FP)
95.11k
104.02k (x1.09)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
22.02k
24.4k (x1.11)
Test#1 (Memory)
4.57k
7.74k (x1.69)
TOTAL
229.2k
244.1k (x1.07)

Performance/W
i3-9100
i5-9300H
Test#1 (Integers)
1654 points/W
2399 points/W
Test#2 (FP)
1463 points/W
2312 points/W
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
339 points/W
542 points/W
Test#1 (Memory)
70 points/W
172 points/W
TOTAL
3526 points/W
5424 points/W

Performance/GHz
i3-9100
i5-9300H
Test#1 (Integers)
6675 points/GHz
6493 points/GHz
Test#2 (FP)
5833 points/GHz
5703 points/GHz
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
1365 points/GHz
1346 points/GHz
Test#1 (Memory)
2018 points/GHz
2938 points/GHz
TOTAL
15891 points/GHz
16480 points/GHz

Monothread performance graph
Monothread performance graphics gives the performance vs time. They are useful to measure the time it takes to the CPU to reach the maximum performance.

Usually, CPU's performance will be steady during these tests but if it has a slow frequency strategy, the first samples will show a lower score.


Test#1 (Integers) [points vs time]

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Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]

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Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]

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Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]

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Multithread performance graph
Multithread graphs measure the performance against a heavy load during certain time.

If CPU's TDP doesn't limit the frequency and the machine is properly cooled, performance should remain steady vs time. Otherwise, the performance score will oscillate or decrease over time.


Test#1 (Integers) [points vs time]

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Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]

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Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]

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Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]

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