Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Core i3-7100 vs Xeon E5-520 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-7100 is faster than the Xeon E5-520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-520 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7100. Indeed, the Xeon E5-520 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7100. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-520. A Core i3-7100 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-520 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-7100. The Xeon E5-520 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 i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.