Intel Core i3-10300 vs Intel Core i7-8700T

Core i3-10300 vs Core i7-8700T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700T beats the Core i3-10300 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-10300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8700T has significantly more cores than the Core i3-10300. Indeed, the Core i7-8700T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-10300. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-10300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700T. Also, the Core i3-10300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8700T 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-8700T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-10300. The Core i7-8700T 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.