Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2 vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Xeon E3-1240 V2 vs Core i3-1220P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1220P beats the Xeon E3-1240 V2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1240 V2 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1220P. In terms of cache, the Core i3-1220P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1240 V2. The Core i3-1220P also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 E3-1240 V2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.