Intel Core i3-1005G1 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

Core i3-1005G1 vs Xeon E5-1603 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1603 beats the Core i3-1005G1 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-1005G1 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1603 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-1005G1. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1603 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-1005G1. But they both have the same number of threads. A Core i3-1005G1 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-1005G1 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.