Intel Core i3-9100 vs Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3

Core i3-9100 vs Xeon E5-2670 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 beats the Core i3-9100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-9100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i3-9100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-9100. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-9100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Also, the Core i3-9100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-9100 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2670 v3 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. For instance, the Core i3-9100 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.