Intel Core i3-3220 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Core i3-3220 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 is faster than the Core i3-3220. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3220 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-3220. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-3220. It also has more threads than the Core i3-3220. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3220.

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 i3-3220 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.