Intel Core i3-2100 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

Core i3-2100 vs Xeon E5-2420 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2420 performs better than the Core i3-2100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-2100. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-2100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-2100. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-2100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420. A Core i3-2100 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 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 i3-2100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.