Intel Core i7-2700K vs Intel Core i3-N300

Core i7-2700K vs Core i3-N300 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-N300 beats the Core i7-2700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2700K 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 i7-2700K has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N300. Also, the Core i7-2700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Core i7-2700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-2700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.