Intel Xeon E3-1241 v3 vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Xeon E3-1241 v3 vs Core i3-1220P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1220P beats the Xeon E3-1241 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1241 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P. Despite this, the Core i3-1220P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1220P outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1241 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 E3-1241 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.