Intel Xeon E3-1241 v3 vs Intel Core i3-N300

Xeon E3-1241 v3 vs Core i3-N300 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1241 v3 beats the Core i3-N300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-N300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-N300 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1241 v3 that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N300. Also, the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 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.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.