Using cTDP-down, the CPU can also be configured to 35 Watt resulting in a reduced performance. Intel specifies the TDP with 45 watts and therefore the i5 is only suited for big laptops with good cooling solutions. We do expect a performance improvement, but as a low-end solution it will probably only display current games smoothly at reduced details - if at all. The architecture is identical to that of the Intel HD Graphics 630. The integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630 iGPU is supposed to offer a slightly higher performance as its clock rate has been increased by 50 MHz. Still, the performance of the i5-9300H should be sufficient for even demanding applications and games. The faster Coffee Lake CPUs, like the Core i7-8750H/9750H offers two additional cores and is therefore up to 50% faster in multithreaded benchmarks. The Intel Core i5-9300H should perform similar as the older Core i7-7920HQ (3.1 - 4.1 GHz). The Coffee Lake architecture is similar to Kaby Lake and differs only in the amount of cores (now six cores for the high end versions) and the improved 14nm process (14nm++ according to Intel).
Compared to the predecessor, the Core i5-8300H from 2018, the 9300H is clocked slightly higher (+100 MHz CPU, +50 MHz GPU). According to Intel, the CPU is manufactured in an improved 14nm (14nm++) process. The processor clocks at between 2.4 and 4.1 GHz (4 with 4 cores) and can execute up to eight threads simultaneously thanks to Hyper-Threading. The Intel Core i5-9300H is a fast processor for laptops with four cores based on the Coffee Lake architecture (2019 Refresh, CFL-HR).