Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3

Core i3-7100 vs Xeon E5-1603 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1603 v3 beats the Core i3-7100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-7100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1603 v3 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7100 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A Core i3-7100 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.

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 i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.