Intel Core i5-7300HQ: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Technologies
Memory
Integrated video card
Benchmarks
Gaming
AMD equivalent
User rating
Advices and comments
Summary
Intel started Intel Core i5-7300HQ sales 3 January 2017 at a recommended price of $250. This is Kaby Lake architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3500 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA1440 processor with a TDP of 45 Watt. It supports DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133, DDR3L-1600 memory.
It provides poor benchmark performance at 5.78 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX.
General info
Of Core i5-7300HQ processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.
Value for money (0-100)
0.24
Market segment
Laptop
Series
Intel Core i5
Architecture codename
Kaby Lake
Release date
3 January 2017
Launch price (MSRP)
$250
Technical specs
Core i5-7300HQ's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of Core i5-7300HQ's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
Number of cores
4
Number of threads
4
64 bit support
+
Compatibility
Information on Core i5-7300HQ compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.
Socket
FCBGA1440
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core i5-7300HQ. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
Instruction set extensions
Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI
+
AVX
+
vPro
-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)
+
Speed Shift
+
My WiFi
+
Turbo Boost
2.0
Hyper-Threading
+
Idle States
+
Thermal Monitoring
+
Flex Memory Access
+
Smart Response
+
Security technologies
Core i5-7300HQ technologies aimed at raising security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
TXT
-
EDB
+
Secure Key
+
MPX
+
Identity Protection
+
SGX
Yes with Intel® ME
OS Guard
+
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core i5-7300HQ are enumerated here.
AMD-V
+
VT-d
+
VT-x
+
EPT
+
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i5-7300HQ.
Graphics specifications
General parameters of GPU integrated into Core i5-7300HQ.
Max video memory
64 GB
Quick Sync
+
Clear Video
+
Clear Video HD
+
Graphics max frequency
1 GHz
InTru 3D
+
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of Core i5-7300HQ's integrated GPU.
Number of displays supported
3
eDP
+
DisplayPort
+
HDMI
+
DVI
+
Graphics image quality
Maximum display resolutions supported by Core i5-7300HQ's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.
4K resolution support
+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4
4096x2304@30Hz
Max resolution over eDP
4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort
4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over VGA
N/A
Graphics API support
APIs supported by Core i5-7300HQ's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.
DirectX
12
OpenGL
4.5
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of Core i5-7300HQ's supported peripherals.
PCIe revision
3.0
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Core i5-7300HQ. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
5.78
3DMark06 CPU
6279
Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
5435
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
18065
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core
1.52
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
6
Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core
142
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
513
x264 encoding pass 1
161
x264 encoding pass 2
34
TrueCrypt AES
2.3
Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core
3195
Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core
9752
Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core
4022
Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core
10525
Passmark
5130
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Core i5-7300HQ is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Core i5-7300HQ performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook CPUs.
100 %
Core i5-7300HQAMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Core i5-7300HQ from AMD is Phenom II X4 P960, which is faster by 2% and higher by 16 positions in our rating.