Intel Core i5-8350U vs Intel Xeon E3-1225 V2

Core i5-8350U vs Xeon E3-1225 V2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1225 V2 beats the Core i5-8350U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8350U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-8350U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1225 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8350U. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E3-1225 V2 also has slightly 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. Indeed, the Core i5-8350U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.