Intel 300 Dual-Core CPU Benchmarked, Proving Why It’s The Lowest-End Chip In The Raptor Lake Refresh Lineup

The Intel 300 is a relatively odd CPU entry in the 14th Gen desktop family & has now been benchmarked to show why dual cores don't have a place in 2024.

Intel 300 CPU Benchmarks Show That Dual-Core CPUs Have No Place In 2024 For Any Kind of Work

The Intel 300 CPU is the firm's attempt to keep the "Pentium" heritage alive, by giving it a new life through current-gen architectures. It comes under a completely new naming convention and is the direct successor to the Pentium Gold G7400. For those confused, the Intel 300 comes under the Raptor Lake series, and one shouldn't confuse it with the "Alder Lake-N" models such as the N200, which is a completely separate lineup and rather focuses on the E-Core architecture.

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In terms of the specification of the CPU, the Intel 300 features 2 P-Cores based on the Raptor Cove architecture hence a total of four threads onboard. The processor features the lowest TDP in the complete lineup, rated at just 46W, which makes it a power-efficient option in some scenarios at least. The Intel 300 also features 6 MB of L3 cache (3 MB per core) along with a boost clock of up to 3.9 GHz. Looking at the complete lineup, the closest competitor in the Raptor Lake lineup of the Intel 300 is the Core i3-14100, and based on the benchmarks done by PC Watch, the performance difference is still quite high.

Moving on to synthetic benchmarks, the Intel 300 CPU is well behind the Core i3-14100 both in single-core and multi-core testing at Geekbench, and interestingly the performance difference reaches as high as 55%, which is solely due to the Intel 300 processor lacking capabilities such as Turbo Boost, which pushes it back in terms of squeezing out every bit of power. The same case is with benchmarking on UL Procyon, which is a video editing test, and by the looks of it, choosing the Intel 300 for media purposes won't be the right option.