Intel Core i3-8109U vs Intel Xeon X5650

Core i3-8109U vs Xeon X5650 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5650 beats the Core i3-8109U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8109U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon X5650 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-8109U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8109U. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8109U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5650. Also, the Core i3-8109U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-8109U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5650 CPU because of its significantly 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 X5650 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-8109U. The Xeon X5650 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 i3-8109U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.