Intel Core i3-9300 vs Intel Core i7-6700K

Core i3-9300 vs Core i7-6700K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6700K beats the Core i3-9300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-9300 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-6700K has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-9300. Despite this, the Core i3-9300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-9300 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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 i3-9300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.