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Intel Pentium E6500 vs Intel Core i3-8300

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 39 %
Intel Pentium E6500
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i3-8300
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 20 %
Intel Pentium E6500
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i3-8300
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Pentium E6500
2C / 2T · 2.93 GHz
408
Intel Core i3-8300
4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz
1,040
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Pentium E6500
2C / 2T · 2.93 GHz
736
Intel Core i3-8300
4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz
3,425

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At a glance

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Intel Pentium E6500Intel Core i3-8300
FamilyIntel Pentium (150)Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU groupIntel Pentium E5000/E6000 (13)Intel Core i 8000 (20)
ArchitectureWolfdale (Penryn)Coffee Lake S
Technology45 nm14 nm
SegmentDesktopDesktop
SocketLGA 775LGA 1151-2
PredecessorIntel Core i3-7300
SuccessorIntel Core i3-9300

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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CPU Cores / Threads2 / 24 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 2x Penryn 4x
Frequency: 2.93 GHz 3.70 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):
Turbo (All Cores):
L2-Cache2.00 MB
L3-Cache6.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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GPU nameno iGPUIntel UHD Graphics 630
GPU frequency0.35 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader / 24 / 192
Raytracing
Max. displays3
Max. GPU Memory64 GB
Technology14 nm
Release dateQ4/2017

NPU AI performance

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AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Pentium E6500Intel Core i3-8300
MemoryDDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
DDR2-800 (12.8 GB/s)
DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory16 GB64 GB
Memory channels22
ECCNoYes
PCIe3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Intel Pentium E6500Intel Core i3-8300
TDP65 W62 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.100 °C

Technical details

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Intel Pentium E6500Intel Core i3-8300
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release dateQ3/2009Q4/2017
Release price125 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

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Intel Pentium E6500
Intel Pentium E6500
2C / 2T · 2.93 GHz
Intel Core i3-8300
Intel Core i3-8300
4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

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