Intel Core i7-4790S vs Intel Core i3-N305

Core i7-4790S vs Core i3-N305 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-N305 performs better than the Core i7-4790S. Despite this, the Core i7-4790S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-N305 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-4790S has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790S has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N305. Also, the Core i7-4790S has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N305 outputs less heat than Core i7-4790S 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 i7-4790S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.