Intel Core i5-2430M vs Intel Core i3-N305

Core i5-2430M vs Core i3-N305 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-N305 is faster than the Core i5-2430M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2430M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-N305 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-2430M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2430M. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2430M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-N305. Despite this, the Core i3-N305 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N305 outputs less heat than Core i5-2430M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-2430M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.