AMD FX-9370 vs Intel Core i3-N300

FX-9370 vs Core i3-N300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9370 is faster than the Core i3-N300. 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 significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the FX-9370 has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9370 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-N300. Also, the FX-9370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than FX-9370 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 FX-9370 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-N300. The FX-9370 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 FX-9370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.