Intel Pentium E6300 vs Intel Core i3-3217U

Pentium E6300 vs Core i3-3217U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3217U beats the Pentium E6300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium E6300 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-3217U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium E6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-3217U. The Core i3-3217U outputs less heat than Pentium E6300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Pentium E6300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.