Intel Core i3-7350K vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Core i3-7350K vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 beats the Core i3-7350K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7350K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7350K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7350K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7350K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-7350K. The Xeon E3-1240 V2 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 i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.