Intel Core i3-3220 vs Intel Xeon W3520

Core i3-3220 vs Xeon W3520 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3520 beats the Core i3-3220 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-3220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon W3520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-3220 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-3220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3520. A Core i3-3220 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3520 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 i3-3220 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.