Intel Core i3-4370 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220

Core i3-4370 vs Xeon E3-1220 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4370 beats the Xeon E3-1220 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4370 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220. A Core i3-4370 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 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 i3-4370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.