Intel Core i3-8145U vs Intel Xeon W3520

Core i3-8145U vs Xeon W3520 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3520 beats the Core i3-8145U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-8145U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon W3520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-8145U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W3520 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8145U. Despite this, the Core i3-8145U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-8145U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3520 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon W3520 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8145U. The Xeon W3520 also has significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i3-8145U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.