Intel Core i3-6100T vs Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3

Core i3-6100T vs Xeon E5-1603 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1603 v3 is faster than the Core i3-6100T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6100T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1603 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6100T. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1603 v3 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6100T. But they both have the same number of threads. A Core i3-6100T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-6100T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.