Intel Core i5-8365U vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

Core i5-8365U vs Xeon E3-1230 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 beats the Core i5-8365U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8365U. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8365U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-8365U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.