Intel Core i3-9100 vs Intel Xeon E5-2640

Core i3-9100 vs Xeon E5-2640 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-9100 beats the Xeon E5-2640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-9100. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-9100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-9100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-9100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Core i3-9100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-9100 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 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 E5-2640 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-9100. The Xeon E5-2640 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. For instance, the Core i3-9100 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.