Intel Core i5-10310Y

Intel Core i5-10310Y is a mobile processor in Intel's Core 10th Gen lineup, built on the 14 nm Comet Lake architecture. The chip provides four cores and eight threads, with a 1100.00 MHz base clock and a 4.10 GHz boost clock, all inside a 9 W TDP. It is packaged for the Intel BGA 1440 socket, integrates UHD Graphics, and supports DDR3 memory. The database record for this CPU shows no populated benchmark scores, an average benchmark score of 0, and a percentile rank of 50 across all CPUs.

Who Should Consider It

The absence of populated benchmark results means recommendations must be built from the specification sheet rather than from test scores. With four cores and eight threads, the i5-10310Y has enough logical CPU resources for everyday operating system multitasking. The high 4.10 GHz boost clock points toward responsive behavior in applications that rely on one or two primary threads, while the 1100.00 MHz base clock creates a low frequency point for light loads. That mix fits general office use, web browsing, document editing, and communication software.

Creation workloads depend heavily on scaling behavior. A four-core, eight-thread processor with a 6 MB shared L3 cache can handle lightly threaded creative tasks, but sustained all-core encoding or rendering workloads will be constrained by the limited physical core count and the 9 W power envelope. The record includes UHD Graphics as the integrated graphics unit, and no separate graphics hardware is listed. Users whose creation workflows are dominated by long batch jobs should note that this record contains no multi-core benchmark score to confirm sustained performance.

Gaming considerations are also limited by the data. The only graphics unit named is UHD Graphics, the market segment is Mobile, and the TDP is 9 W. That combination points toward a low-power mobile system rather than a high-throughput gaming platform. No gaming benchmark appears in the benchmark array, so this database entry provides no measured gaming comparison. The i5-10310Y is therefore best matched to users who need a small, low-power processor for general mobile applications and do not depend on a measured gaming result from this record.

Power and Thermals

The thermal design power is 9 W. That figure defines an ultra-low-power cooling class for this processor. A 9 W part implies a lightweight thermal solution, because the CPU is designed to shed a small amount of heat under load. The process node is 14 nm and the foundry is Intel, so the manufacturing process is not a leading-edge node; the low power target is supported by the low 1100.00 MHz base clock and by the mobile design. The socket is Intel BGA 1440, and the market segment is Mobile, which points toward an integrated notebook-class platform.

No cooler specification is included in the data, and no memory bus or memory bandwidth figures are listed, so the complete platform power picture cannot be reconstructed from this record. The memory support is DDR3, and ECC memory is not supported. The 9 W TDP applies to a configuration that includes four cores, eight threads, and UHD Graphics, meaning any sustained workload must share that same thermal budget. The data does not provide a separate power number for the integrated graphics unit.

Single-Thread vs Multi-Thread Behavior

The clock relationship is the clearest behavioral signal in the spec sheet. The base clock of 1100.00 MHz is low, while the boost clock of 4.10 GHz is high. That wide spread suggests a processor designed to sit at a low-power idle point and then jump to a high-frequency burst when work arrives. Single-threaded tasks that do not require all cores can potentially use the full 4.10 GHz boost clock. Multi-threaded tasks, by contrast, must operate within a 9 W envelope and rely on only four physical cores.

The processor can execute eight threads because the thread count is eight, but the physical core count is four. In heavily threaded workloads, additional threads will share the same execution resources and power budget. The cache hierarchy reinforces this split: 64 KB of L1 per core and 256 KB of L2 per core provide local storage for each core, while the 6 MB shared L3 acts as the common pool. A single-threaded task can benefit from the boost clock and shared cache, while a long-running all-core workload is more likely to settle into a lower sustained frequency because the thermal limit prevents all cores from staying at maximum boost indefinitely.

No measured single-thread or multi-thread scores are present in the benchmark array, so the split is inferred from the core count, thread count, base clock, boost clock, TDP, and cache layout.

How It Compares

The nearest-rival list for this processor is empty. There are no named competing SKUs, no comparison scores, and no deltaPct values available for this entry. The only cross-CPU placement supplied in the record is percentileVsAllCpus: 50. That places the i5-10310Y at the midpoint of the database distribution. The average benchmark score is 0, and the benchmark array is empty, so the percentile is not tied to a non-zero measured result in this record.

Because no nearest rivals are listed, direct head-to-head comparison paragraphs cannot be written from this fact pack. The most precise statement allowed by the data is that the processor occupies the 50th percentile across all CPUs and has no listed adjacent comparison points.

FAQ

Q: What architecture, codename, generation, core count, and thread count are recorded?

A: Architecture is Comet Lake, codename is Comet Lake-Y, generation is Core i5 (Comet Lake-Y), with 4 cores and 8 threads.

Q: What are the clock and power figures in the record?

A: The base clock is 1100.00 MHz, the boost clock is 4.10 GHz, and the TDP is 9 W.

Q: What socket, process node, foundry, and market segment are listed?

A: The socket is Intel BGA 1440, the process node is 14 nm, the foundry is Intel, and the market segment is Mobile.

Q: What does the cache hierarchy show?

A: L1 cache is 64 KB per core, L2 cache is 256 KB per core, and L3 cache is 6 MB shared.

Q: What memory and graphics capabilities are documented?

A: Memory support is DDR3, ECC memory is false, and integrated graphics are UHD Graphics.

Q: Is the processor unlocked and still in production?

A: The multiplier is not unlocked, production status is Active, and the release date is 2019-08-20.