Intel Core i3-7350K vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Core i3-7350K vs Xeon E5-520 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-520 beats the Core i3-7350K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-7350K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7350K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-7350K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. A Core i3-7350K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon E5-520 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-7350K. 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 i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.