Intel Core i3-8300 vs Intel Core i7-6700T

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-6700T

Price

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$ 135.00

$ 64.99 significantly less expensive

$ 199.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2527 points

2714 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4721 points

4% slightly better gaming score

4539 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1919 points

2180 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1841 points

2087 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3086 points

3628 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

957 points

1154 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3827 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3579 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1328 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1206 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

62 W

35 W

77% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

Identical

64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

Identical

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

621st of 1,089

584th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

6th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-8300 vs Core i7-6700T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700T is faster than the Core i3-8300. Despite this, the Core i3-8300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-6700T has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6700T. The Core i7-6700T outputs less heat than Core i3-8300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and 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. For instance, the Core i3-8300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.