Intel Core i3-6100 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Core i3-6100 vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 beats the Core i3-6100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6100 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i3-6100 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-6100. The Xeon E5-2666 v3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i3-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.