Intel Core i3-8300 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

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

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Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Price

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$ 135.00

$ 15.00 slightly less expensive

$ 150.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2527 points

2562 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4721 points

16% slightly better gaming score

4064 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1919 points

2114 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1841 points

2029 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.40 GHz

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

613th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-8300 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-8300 is faster than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1240 V2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same 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.