Intel Core i3-4330 vs Intel Core i5-2300

Core i3-4330 vs Core i5-2300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2300 beats the Core i3-4330 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4330 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-2300 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4330 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4330 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2300. A Core i3-4330 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i3-4330 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.