Intel Core i3-10300 vs Intel Core i7-9700T

Core i3-10300 vs Core i7-9700T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-10300 beats the Core i7-9700T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700T has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-10300 has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-10300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700T. Also, the Core i3-10300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700T 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-10300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.