Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs Intel Core i3-N305

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Core i3 N-series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2675 points

2781 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4187 points

4373 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2229 points

2279 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2142 points

2166 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.17 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

43.57 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3756 points

4208 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1192 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1145 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

88% significantly higher clock speed

1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

Identical

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

15 W

433% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

77% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

598th of 1,089

573rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Core i3 N-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs Core i3-N305 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-N305 performs better than the Xeon E3-1231 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1231 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-N305 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N305. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i3-N305 outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1231 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.