Intel Xeon E3-1275 v3 vs Intel Core i3-N305

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2761 points
2781 points
0.72% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4471 points
2% slightly better gaming score
4373 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2260 points
2279 points
0.84% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2171 points
0.23% slightly better heavy workload score
2166 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.25 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
43.57 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3863 points
4208 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1180 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1145 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
94% significantly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
15 W
533% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
77% significantly more pcie lanes
9

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
100% significantly more memory channels
1

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

577th of 1,089
573rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family
Core i3 N-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E3-1275 v3 vs Core i3-N305 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-N305 is faster than the Xeon E3-1275 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1275 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i3-N305 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1275 v3. Indeed, the Core i3-N305 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1275 v3. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1275 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N305.

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 E3-1275 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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