Intel Core i7-5700HQ vs Intel Core i3-N300

Core i7-5700HQ vs Core i3-N300 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-5700HQ performs better than the Core i3-N300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-N300 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 i7-5700HQ has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5700HQ has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-N300. Despite this, the Core i3-N300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Core i7-5700HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i3-N300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-5700HQ. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-5700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.