Intel Core i5-7300U vs Intel Core m3-7Y30

Core i5-7300U vs Core m3-7Y30 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-7300U performs better than the Core m3-7Y30. Despite this, the Core m3-7Y30 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-7300U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core m3-7Y30. Also, the Core i5-7300U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core m3-7Y30 outputs less heat than Core i5-7300U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.