Intel Core i5-8300H vs Intel Core i3-N300

Core i5-8300H vs Core i3-N300 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8300H beats the Core i3-N300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-N300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-N300 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8300H has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8300H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N300. Also, the Core i5-8300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Core i5-8300H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i3-N300 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8300H. Despite this, the Core i5-8300H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-N300.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-8300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.