Intel Core i7-4770S vs Intel Core i3-N300

Core i7-4770S vs Core i3-N300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-N300 beats the Core i7-4770S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4770S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-N300 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-4770S has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4770S has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-N300. Also, the Core i7-4770S has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Core i7-4770S 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 i7-4770S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.