Intel Core i3-4340 vs Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3

Core i3-4340 vs Xeon E5-2609 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 beats the Core i3-4340 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4340 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i3-4340 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4340. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4340 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. A Core i3-4340 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2609 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.