Intel Core i3-8100T vs Intel Xeon X5680

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2160 points
4570 points
111% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3996 points
4503 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1646 points
4578 points
178% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1579 points
4568 points
189% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.04 points
56.43 points
40% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2902 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2584 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points
94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
535 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3124 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2476 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1103 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
532 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.33 GHz
7% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
271% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
288 GiB
350% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
4776% significantly more L2 cache
0.02 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
499% significantly more L3 cache
1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

693rd of 1,089
383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Core i3-8100T vs Xeon X5680 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5680 beats the Core i3-8100T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8100T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon X5680 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-8100T has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8100T. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-8100T. A Core i3-8100T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i3-8100T has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Core i3-8100T 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. For instance, the Core i3-8100T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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