Intel Core i3-10300 vs Intel Core i7-6700K

Core i3-10300 vs Core i7-6700K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-10300 is faster than the Core i7-6700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-10300. Despite this, the Core i3-10300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-10300 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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.