Intel Core i3-4160 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Core i3-4160 vs Xeon E5-2689 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2689 beats the Core i3-4160 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4160 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2689 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-4160 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4160. A Core i3-4160 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 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 i3-4160 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.