Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2 vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Xeon E3-1270 V2 vs Core i3-1220P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 beats the Core i3-1220P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1220P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-1220P has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. The Core i3-1220P also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 E3-1270 V2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.