Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 vs Intel Core i3-N300

Xeon E3-1230 v3 vs Core i3-N300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-N300 beats the Xeon E3-1230 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-N300 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N300. Despite this, the Core i3-N300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1230 v3 thanks to a 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 Xeon E3-1230 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.