Intel Core i3-8300 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Price

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$ 135.00

$ 194.95 significantly less expensive

$ 329.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2527 points

4% slightly better overall score

2407 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4721 points

6% slightly better gaming score

4431 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1919 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1840 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1841 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1766 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3086 points

3379 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

957 points

1204 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3827 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3325 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1328 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1198 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

62 W

29% slightly lower TDP

80 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

Identical

64 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

621st of 1,089

642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-8300 vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-8300 is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v5 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v5. A Core i3-8300 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 v5 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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 i3-8300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.