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Intel Core i3 N300 vs AMD Ryzen 3 7440U

31 out of 100
Intel Core i3 N300
VS
48 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 3 7440U
Intel Core i3 N300
AMD Ryzen 3 7440U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 0.8 GHz Intel Core i3 N300 with 8-cores against the 3.0 GHz AMD Ryzen 3 7440U with 4-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7440U and N300
Advantages of Intel Core i3 N300
  • Has 4 more physical cores
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 3 7440U
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 10 nanometers
  • More powerful Radeon 740M integrated graphics: 1.3 vs 0.6 TFLOPS
  • 80% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2323 vs 1292 points
  • Newer - released 9 months later
  • Has 2 MB larger L3 cache size
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core i3 N300
vs
Ryzen 3 7440U

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Core i3 N300
1292
Ryzen 3 7440U +80%
2323
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Core i3 N300
4394
Ryzen 3 7440U +50%
6571
File compression 379.5 MB/sec 728.4 MB/sec
Clang compilation 32.3 Klines/sec 41.6 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 105.1 pages/sec 125.1 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 126 Mpixels/sec 163.3 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 152.9 pages/sec 235.2 pages/sec
Background blur 19.9 images/sec 33.6 images/sec
Photo processing 36 images/sec 54.6 images/sec
Ray tracing 6.44 Mpixels/sec 8.96 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 72 & 3 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Core i3 N300
1922
Ryzen 3 7440U +64%
3158
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Core i3 N300
7999
Ryzen 3 7440U +64%
13100
Integer math 27.4 GOps/sec 37.4 GOps/sec
Floating point math 18.3 GOps/sec 21.9 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 21M Primes/sec 44M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 11.3M Strings/sec 19.6M Strings/sec
Data encryption 6.3 GBytes/sec 8.8 GBytes/sec
Data compression 91.8 MBytes/sec 149.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 474 Frames/sec 855 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 4.7B Matrices/sec 10.8B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 154 & 2 samples

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 43.6 PPW 16.2 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 627.7 PPW 219 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1142.7 PPW 436.7 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i3 N300 and AMD Ryzen 3 7440U

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released January 3, 2023 October 10, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Alder Lake Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Model number i3-N300 -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics (32EU) Radeon 740M
Successor - - AMD Ryzen 3 210
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#122nd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores - 1
P-Threads - 2
Base Frequency (P) - 3.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 4.7 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 3
E-Threads 8 6
Base Frequency (E) 0.8 GHz 2.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.8 GHz 3.3 GHz
Total
Total Cores 8 4
Total Threads 8 8
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 8x 30x
L1 Cache 96K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (shared) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 6MB (shared) 8MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 20.9 billions
Fabrication Process 10 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 7 W 15-30 W (configurable)
Socket BGA-1264 FP8
Peak Temperature 105°C 100°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics (32EU) Radeon 740M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1250 MHz 2500 MHz
Shading Units 256 256
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 8 8
Execution Units 32 4
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core i3 N300
0.6 TFLOPS
Ryzen 3 7440U +117%
1.3 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 740M compared to UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-4800
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR5-4800		 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 16 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 1 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i3 N300 official page AMD Ryzen 3 7440U official page
PCI Express Version 3.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 9 14

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Comments

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