Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Xeon E3-1220

Core i5-8250U vs Xeon E3-1220 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8250U beats the Xeon E3-1220 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-8250U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1220 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Core i5-8250U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.