Intel Core i3-1125G4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660

Core i3-1125G4 vs Xeon E5-2660 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2660 performs better than the Core i3-1125G4. Despite this, the Core i3-1125G4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-1125G4. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-1125G4. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1125G4. A Core i3-1125G4 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-1125G4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.