Intel Core i7-2600K vs Intel Core i3-N300

Core i7-2600K vs Core i3-N300 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-N300 is faster than the Core i7-2600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-N300 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-2600K that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-N300. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Core i7-2600K 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 i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.