Intel Core i7-6500U vs Intel Core i3-N305

Core i7-6500U vs Core i3-N305 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-N305 beats the Core i7-6500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-N305 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-6500U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-N305. Despite this, the Core i3-N305 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.