Intel Core i5 10300H vs i3 1115G4

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 10300H with 4-cores against the 1.7-3.0 GHz i3 1115G4 with 2-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 1115G4 and 10300H
Advantages of Intel Core i5 10300H
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Supports up to 128 GB DDR4-2933 RAM
  • Has 2 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 10% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.5 GHz vs 4.1 GHz)
Advantages of Intel Core i3 1115G4
  • More powerful Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 integrated graphics: 1 vs 0.4 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process – 10 versus 14 nanometers
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
  • 21% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 1822 vs 1512 points
  • Newer - released 5 months later

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 374.2 MB/sec 384.7 MB/sec
Clang compilation 32.9 Klines/sec 19.6 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 101.1 pages/sec 73 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 136 Mpixels/sec 99.4 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 146.6 pages/sec 99.4 pages/sec
Background blur 25.2 images/sec 15.9 images/sec
Photo processing 44.6 images/sec 40 images/sec
Ray tracing 6.49 Mpixels/sec 3.68 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 693 & 553 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 26.8 GOps/sec 17.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 17 GOps/sec 10.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 27M Primes/sec 25M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 14.8M Strings/sec 7.6M Strings/sec
Data encryption 2.7 GBytes/sec 3.3 GBytes/sec
Data compression 115.6 MBytes/sec 61.2 MBytes/sec
Physics 512 Frames/sec 399 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 7.3B Matrices/sec 4.5B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 6248 & 5667 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
64.94

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 5.9 PPW 6.1 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 103 PPW 120.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 181.7 PPW 207.3 PPW
Blender / Watt 1.44 PPW 1.06 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i5 10300H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-24 (Tracey A.)GeekBench1553 / 5212
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-24 (Tracey A.)Cinebench 202467 / 266
πŸ“˜ 2024-11-27 (iamthaone)Cinebench 202456 / 191
Intel Core i3 1115G4
No benchmark results yet

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i5 10300H and i3 1115G4

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Released April 2, 2020 September 2, 2020
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Comet Lake Tiger Lake
Model number i5-10300H i3-1115G4
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics 630 UHD Graphics Xe G4
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 5 3550H - AMD Ryzen 3 5300U
Successor - Intel Core i5 11300H - Intel Core 3 100U

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 2
P-Threads 8 4
Base Frequency (P) 2.5 GHz 1.7-3.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.5 GHz 4.1 GHz
Total
Total Cores 4 2
Total Threads 8 4
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 25x 17-30x
Bus Bandwidth 8 GT/s 4 GT/s
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 96K (per core)
L2 Cache 256K (per core) 1280K (per core)
L3 Cache 8MB (shared) 6MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 14 nm 10 nm
TDP (PL1) 45 W 12-28 W (configurable)
Socket BGA-1440 BGA-1449
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 100Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 630 Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4
GPU Base Clock 350 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1050 MHz 1250 MHz
Shading Units 192 384
TMUs 24 24
ROPs 3 12
Execution Units 24 48
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
0.4 TFLOPS
1 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-2933 - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4X-3733
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 45.8 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i5 10300H official page Intel Core i3 1115G4 official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 16 16

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