Intel Core i3-N305 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Core i3-N305 vs Core 7 150U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core 7 150U beats the Core i3-N305 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-N305 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i3-N305 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-N305. Both the Core i3-N305 and Core 7 150U have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core 7 150U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-N305. The Core 7 150U also has significantly more 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-N305 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.