Intel Core i5-5257U vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Core i5-5257U vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 beats the Core i5-5257U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5257U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-5257U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5257U. Also, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-5257U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 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. Indeed, the Core i5-5257U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.