Intel Core i3-4170 vs Intel Xeon X5570

Core i3-4170 vs Xeon X5570 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5570 performs better than the Core i3-4170. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4170 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X5570 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4170. Indeed, the Xeon X5570 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4170. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5570. A Core i3-4170 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5570 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.