Core i5-10500H: specs and benchmarks

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Core i5-10500H
2020
6 cores / 12 threads, 45 Watt
7.07

Core i5-10500H provides acceptable benchmark performance at 7.07% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Core i5-10500H sales 2 April 2020. This is a Comet Lake-H architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4500 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA1440 processor with a TDP of 45 Watt. It supports DDR4 memory.

Primary details

Core i5-10500H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking993
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
Power efficiency14.87of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameComet Lake-H (2020)
Release date2 April 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads12
Base clock speed2.5 GHzof 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed4.5 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus rate8 GT/s
L1 cache384 KBof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache153 KBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache12 MBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K)
Maximum core temperature100 °Cof 110 °C (Core Ultra 9 185H)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Core i5-10500H compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
SocketFCBGA1440
Power consumption (TDP)45 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Core i5-10500H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI+
FMA+
AVX+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Speed Shift+
Hyper-Threading Technology+
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+
Flex Memory Access+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0+

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-
EDB+
Secure Key+
Identity Protection+
SGXYes with Intel® ME
OS Guard+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i5-10500H's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4
Maximum memory size128 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9654)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth45.8 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9654)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Core i5-10500H.

Integrated graphics cardIntel® UHD Graphics for 10th Gen Intel® Processors
Quick Sync Video+
Graphics max frequency1.05 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core i5-10500H's integrated GPU.

Number of displays supported3
eDP+
DisplayPort+
HDMI+
DVI+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Core i5-10500H's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096 x 2304@30Hz
Max resolution over eDP4096 x 2304@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096 x 2304@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Core i5-10500H's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12
OpenGL4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (EPYC 9655P)
PCI Express lanes16of 128 (EPYC 9655P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Core i5-10500H. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

i5-10500H 7.07

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

i5-10500H 11235

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

i5-10500H 1455

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

i5-10500H 5050

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

i5-10500H 7109

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

i5-10500H 37125

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

i5-10500H 11157

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

i5-10500H 14

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

i5-10500H 1249

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

i5-10500H 186

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

i5-10500H 2.1

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

i5-10500H 4.1

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

i5-10500H 78

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

i5-10500H 228

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

i5-10500H 6194

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

i5-10500H 6332

Blender(-)

i5-10500H 386

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

i5-10500H 1206

7-Zip Single

i5-10500H 4886

7-Zip

i5-10500H 33445

WebXPRT 3

i5-10500H 224

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Core i5-10500H's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Ryzen 3 5425U 100.71
Core i5-10500H 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Core i5-10500H is Ryzen 3 5425U, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Core i5-10500H:

Ryzen 3 5425U 100.71
Core i5-10500H 100

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Core i5-10500H, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Core i5-10500H in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 12478 configurations using Core i5-10500H in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.4% (49/12478)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.008% (1/12478)
RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
0.008% (1/12478)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.03% (4/12478)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.008% (1/12478)
RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
0.03% (4/12478)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.2% (26/12478)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.008% (1/12478)
RTX 4090 Mobile GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
0.008% (1/12478)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.2% (30/12478)

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