Intel Core i3-8300 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Core i3-8300 vs Core 7 150U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-8300 performs better than the Core 7 150U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 150U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i3-8300 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8300. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U. The info from our database shows that the Core 7 150U has more L2 cache than the Core i3-8300. The Core 7 150U 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. For instance, the Core i3-8300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.