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Core i5-9300H vs i3-8100


Description
Both models i5-9300H and i3-8100 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 i5-9300H gets a score of 244.1 k points while the i3-8100 gets 200.4 k points.

Summarizing, the i5-9300H is 1.2 times faster than the i3-8100. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ea
906eb
Core
Coffee Lake-H
Coffee Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.1 GHz
3.6 GHz
Socket
FCBGA1440
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
4/8
4/4
TDP
45 W
65 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
4x32+4x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
4x256 kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
6144 kB
Date
April 2019
October 2017
Mean monothread perf.
67.57k points
59.18k points
Mean multithread perf.
244.1k points
200.4k 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
i5-9300H
i3-8100
Test#1 (Integers)
3.38k
3.72k (x1.1)
Test#2 (FP)
12.84k
15.33k (x1.19)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.6k
4.71k (x1.02)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.23k
6.76k (x1.09)
TOTAL
27.05k
30.52k (x1.13)

Multithread

i5-9300H

i3-8100
Test#1 (Integers)
11.6k
14.48k (x1.25)
Test#2 (FP)
48.01k
59.59k (x1.24)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
17.05k
18.07k (x1.06)
Test#1 (Memory)
3.88k
4.3k (x1.11)
TOTAL
80.54k
96.43k (x1.2)

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
i5-9300H
i3-8100
Test#1 (Integers)
26.62k
24.47k (x0.92)
Test#2 (FP)
23.38k
21.52k (x0.92)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.52k
4.95k (x0.9)
Test#1 (Memory)
12.05k
8.24k (x0.68)
TOTAL
67.57k
59.18k (x0.88)

Multithread

i5-9300H

i3-8100
Test#1 (Integers)
107.95k
92.86k (x0.86)
Test#2 (FP)
104.02k
83.05k (x0.8)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
24.4k
18.55k (x0.76)
Test#1 (Memory)
7.74k
5.93k (x0.77)
TOTAL
244.1k
200.4k (x0.82)

Performance/W
i5-9300H
i3-8100
Test#1 (Integers)
2399 points/W
1429 points/W
Test#2 (FP)
2312 points/W
1278 points/W
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
542 points/W
285 points/W
Test#1 (Memory)
172 points/W
91 points/W
TOTAL
5424 points/W
3083 points/W

Performance/GHz
i5-9300H
i3-8100
Test#1 (Integers)
6493 points/GHz
6797 points/GHz
Test#2 (FP)
5703 points/GHz
5977 points/GHz
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
1346 points/GHz
1374 points/GHz
Test#1 (Memory)
2938 points/GHz
2290 points/GHz
TOTAL
16480 points/GHz
16438 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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