Intel Core i3-4340 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Core i3-4340 vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4340 is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4340 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-4340 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v3. A Core i3-4340 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 v3 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 i3-4340 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.