Intel Core i3-10300 vs Intel Core i7-10700

Core i3-10300 vs Core i7-10700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700 beats the Core i3-10300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10700 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-10300 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10300. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-10300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700. Despite this, the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-10700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-10300. The Core i7-10700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-10300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.