Intel Core i5-8400 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

Core i5-8400 vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8400 performs better than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1270 V2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8400 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Indeed, the Core i5-8400 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has more threads than the Core i5-8400. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8400. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-8400 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. The Core i5-8400 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. For instance, the Core i5-8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.