Intel Core i3-7350K vs Intel Xeon E3-1220

Core i3-7350K vs Xeon E3-1220 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1220 is faster than the Core i3-7350K. Despite this, the Core i3-7350K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E3-1220 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-7350K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-7350K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220. A Core i3-7350K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.