Intel Core i3-4170 vs Intel Xeon X3440

Core i3-4170 vs Xeon X3440 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X3440 beats the Core i3-4170 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4170 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X3440 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4170. Indeed, the Xeon X3440 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4170. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4170. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4170 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon X3440. A Core i3-4170 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X3440 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 i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.