Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core i3-N300

Core i9-8950HK vs Core i3-N300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-8950HK beats the Core i3-N300 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-N300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-N300 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i9-8950HK has 6 cores. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has more threads than the Core i3-N300. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-8950HK has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N300. Also, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Core i9-8950HK thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i3-N300 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-N300.

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 i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.