Intel Core i3-8100 vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2

Core i3-8100 vs Xeon E3-1245 V2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1245 V2 beats the Core i3-8100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-8100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E3-1245 V2 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1245 V2. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E3-1245 V2 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i3-8100 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.