Intel Core i3-10300 vs Intel Core i7-10870H

Core i3-10300 vs Core i7-10870H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10870H 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10870H has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i3-10300 that 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10870H outputs less heat than Core i3-10300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-10870H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-10300. The Core i7-10870H also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-10300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.