Intel Core i3-8300 vs Intel Core i7-3940XM

Core i3-8300 vs Core i7-3940XM specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-8300 performs better than the Core i7-3940XM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3940XM in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-3940XM has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3940XM. The Core i7-3940XM outputs less heat than Core i3-8300 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i3-8300 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-3940XM. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i3-8300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.