Intel Core i3-8130U vs Intel Xeon E3-1220

Core i3-8130U vs Xeon E3-1220 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1220 is faster than the Core i3-8130U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8130U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E3-1220 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-8130U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8130U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i3-8130U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.