Intel Core i3-10300 vs Intel Core Ultra 9 288V

Core i3-10300 vs Core Ultra 9 288V benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 288V 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 Ultra 9 288V has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-10300 has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-10300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 288V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 288V has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 288V has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-10300. The Core Ultra 9 288V also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.