Core i5-10300H: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i5-10300H was Comet Lake's mainstream H-processor — a 4-core mobile chip from 2020 that powered the mid-range gaming laptops of its era. The catalog matches it to 17 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 36 of the 69 games the site tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Core i5-10300H sits in 2026

A catalog score of 53.9 places the chip 223rd of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the middle of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood: the Core Ultra 5 325 (54.1) and Ryzen 3 PRO 4450U (54) just above, the Core i5-10400H (53.9) alongside as a same-score sibling, and the Ryzen 5 230 (53.8), Ryzen 7 5800HS (53.8) and Core i5-9400H (53.7) just below. Sitting within a tenth of a point of the Ryzen 7 5800HS is the practical story: Comet Lake's clock bumps kept this quad-core relevant against newer badges at the budget end.

What the chip brings

Comet Lake-H is a 4-core, 8-thread design on a 14 nm process, rated at 45 W in its H-class configuration: a 2.5 GHz base clock and up to 4.5 GHz boost. The integrated UHD Graphics is display-duty hardware, so every gaming machine in this roster pairs the chip with a discrete GPU. In public benchmarks the chip posts 1,381 single-core and 4,056 multi-core in Geekbench, with a PassMark overall score of 8,187. Memory details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 36 of 69 cataloged games — Dying Light 2, Diablo 4, Flight Simulator 2020, Far Cry 5, Doom Eternal, God of War and Grand Theft Auto V among them. Another 26 sit at the minimum tier: Cyberpunk 2077, Hogwarts Legacy, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Witcher 3 and Counter-Strike 2 all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement. The demanding end — Starfield, Helldivers 2, Call of Duty: Warzone, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Apex Legends and Fortnite — asks for more processor than this. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and that is where the machines carrying this chip vary most.

Laptops that carry it

The 17-model roster leans gaming for 2020–2021: the HP Omen 15, Acer Nitro 5, Predator Helios 300 and MSI GF65 and GF75 Thin all sit at $590, Dell's Inspiron G3 3500 at $643 and G7 17 at $664, with the Alienware m15 R3 at $750 and m17 R3 at $1,027 at the top. Two outliers widen the picture: the Dell Vostro 7500 business machine at $463 and the HP ZBook Power G7 workstation at $371 — the cheapest entry in the roster. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: a gaming index of 64 and a photo and design index of 87 reflect the discrete-GPU majority, while mobility at 24 says these are substantial machines rather than ultrabooks.

Bottom line

The Core i5-10300H is a budget-tier chip in 2026, best read as a cheap route into 2020–2021 gaming laptops with capable discrete GPUs: the processor clears the recommended CPU tier for the lighter half of the catalog, and the roster's GPUs do the heavy lifting beyond that. It suits a price-first buyer playing esports and mid-era titles. Judge each listing by its GPU, RAM and condition — at this age those decide the experience far more than the CPU badge.