Intel Core i3-12100F vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Core i3-12100F vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-12100F is faster than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i3-12100F has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-12100F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3.

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 i3-12100F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.