Intel Core i7-7700HQ vs Intel Core i3-N300

Core i7-7700HQ vs Core i3-N300 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-N300 is faster than the Core i7-7700HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-7700HQ 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 i7-7700HQ has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700HQ has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-N300. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Core i7-7700HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-7700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.