Intel Core i7-10610U vs Intel Core i3-N305

Core i7-10610U vs Core i3-N305 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-N305 performs better than the Core i7-10610U. Despite this, the Core i7-10610U 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 i7-10610U that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-10610U and Core i3-N305 are identical in this regard. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-N305 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10610U. Despite this, the Core i7-10610U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-N305.

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 i7-10610U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.