Intel Core i5-7600K vs Intel Core i3-N305

Core i5-7600K vs Core i3-N305 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-N305 performs better than the Core i5-7600K. Despite this, the Core i5-7600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-N305 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-7600K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-7600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N305. In terms of cache, the Core i3-N305 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-7600K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i5-7600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.