Intel Core i3-7100U vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Core i3-7100U vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Core i3-7100U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7100U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core i3-7100U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7100U. A Core i3-7100U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 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 i3-7100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.