Core i5-9300H vs i5-8400
Description
Both models i5-9300H and i5-8400 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 188 k points while the i5-8400 gets 289.6 k points.
Summarizing, the i5-8400 is 1.5 times faster than the i5-9300H. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
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 188 k points while the i5-8400 gets 289.6 k points.
Summarizing, the i5-8400 is 1.5 times faster than the i5-9300H. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
Specs
CPUID
906ed
906ea
Core
Coffee Lake-H
Coffee Lake-S
Base frecuency
2.4 GHz
2.8 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.1 GHz
4 GHz
Socket
BGA 1440
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
4/8
6/6
TDP
45 W
65 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
6x32+6x32 kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
6x256 kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
9216 kB
Date
April 2019
September 2017
Mean monothread perf.
61.06k points
64.98k points
Mean multithread perf.
187.98k points
289.61k points
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
i5-8400
Test#1 (Integers)
24.7k
26.5k (x1.07)
Test#2 (FP)
21.5k
23.11k (x1.07)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.87k
5.2k (x1.07)
Test#1 (Memory)
9.99k
10.16k (x1.02)
TOTAL
61.06k
64.98k (x1.06)
Multithread
i5-9300H
i5-8400
Test#1 (Integers)
85.56k
135.08k (x1.58)
Test#2 (FP)
76.43k
121.49k (x1.59)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
19.35k
27.53k (x1.42)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.63k
5.5k (x0.83)
TOTAL
187.98k
289.61k (x1.54)
Performance/W
i5-9300H
i5-8400
Test#1 (Integers)
1901 points/W
2078 points/W
Test#2 (FP)
1698 points/W
1869 points/W
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
430 points/W
424 points/W
Test#1 (Memory)
147 points/W
85 points/W
TOTAL
4177 points/W
4455 points/W
Performance/GHz
i5-9300H
i5-8400
Test#1 (Integers)
6023 points/GHz
6626 points/GHz
Test#2 (FP)
5245 points/GHz
5778 points/GHz
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
1187 points/GHz
1300 points/GHz
Test#1 (Memory)
2437 points/GHz
2541 points/GHz
TOTAL
14893 points/GHz
16245 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.
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]
Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]
Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]
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.
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]
Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]
Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]
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