Intel Xeon E3-1241 v3 vs Intel Core i3-N305

Xeon E3-1241 v3 vs Core i3-N305 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1241 v3 performs better than the Core i3-N305. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-N305 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 E3-1241 v3 has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N305. Also, the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N305 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.

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