Core i3-N300: specs and benchmarks

VS

Aggregate performance score

Core i3-N300
2023
8 cores / 8 threads, 7 Watt
5.35

Core i3-N300 provides acceptable benchmark performance at 5.35% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Core i3-N300 sales 3 January 2023 at a recommended price of $309. This is an Alder Lake-N architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 8 threads, and is based on Intel 7 manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3800 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCBGA1264 processor with a TDP of 7 Watt. It supports DDR4-3200, DDR5-4800, LPDDR5-4800 memory.

Primary details

Core i3-N300 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1178
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
Power efficiency72.33of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameAlder Lake-N (2023)
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$309of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores8 (Octa-Core)
Threads8
Base clock speed0.1 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.8 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache96 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache2 MB (per module)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache6 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithographyIntel 7 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature105 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Core i3-N300 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCBGA1264
Power consumption (TDP)7 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Core i3-N300. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI+
AVX+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Speed Shift+
Hyper-Threading Technology-
Thermal Monitoring+
GPIO+

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+
OS Guard+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i3-N300's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-3200, DDR5-4800, LPDDR5-4800
Maximum memory size16 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels1of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Core i3-N300.

Integrated graphics cardIntel UHD Graphics
Quick Sync Video+
Graphics max frequency1.25 GHz
Execution Units32

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core i3-N300's integrated GPU.

Number of displays supported3

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Core i3-N300's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096 x 2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096 x 2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Core i3-N300's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12.1
OpenGL4.6

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes9of 128 (EPYC 7551P)
USB revision2.0/3.2

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Core i3-N300. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

i3-N300 5.35

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

i3-N300 8497

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

i3-N300 2884

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

i3-N300 12014

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

i3-N300 4261

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

i3-N300 5

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

i3-N300 416

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

i3-N300 85

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

i3-N300 1.02

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

i3-N300 2.6

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

i3-N300 1915

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

i3-N300 29

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

i3-N300 107

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

i3-N300 2674

Blender(-)

i3-N300 1095

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

i3-N300 626

7-Zip Single

i3-N300 2403

7-Zip

i3-N300 11976

WebXPRT 3

i3-N300 104

CrossMark Overall

i3-N300 529

Blender v3.3 Classroom CPU(-)

i3-N300 2147

Geekbench 6.3 Multi-Core

i3-N300 2803

Geekbench 6.3 Single-Core

i3-N300 762

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Core i3-N300's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Core i7-8809G 100.37
Core i3-N300 100
Atom x7835RE 98.88

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Core i3-N300 is Ryzen 3 7320C, which is faster by 1% and higher by 11 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Core i3-N300:

Ryzen 5 7520U 108.22
Ryzen 3 7320U 103.74
Ryzen 3 7320C 101.31
Core i3-N300 100

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Core i3-N300, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Core i3-N300 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 235 configurations using Core i3-N300 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
3.4% (8/235)
RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 4060
0.9% (2/235)
RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060
0.4% (1/235)
RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 2060
0.9% (2/235)
Arc A580 Arc A580
0.4% (1/235)
RX 580 Radeon RX 580
1.7% (4/235)
GTX 1650 GeForce GTX 1650
1.3% (3/235)
Radeon 780M Radeon 780M
0.4% (1/235)

All comparisons with Core i3-N300

Community ratings

Here is the rating given to the reviewed processor by our users. Let others know your opinion by rating it yourself.


4 78 votes

Rate Core i3-N300 on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Questions & comments

Here you can ask a question about Core i3-N300, agree or disagree with our judgements, or report an error or mismatch.