Intel Xeon E5-1603 vs Intel Core i3-6098P

Xeon E5-1603 vs Core i3-6098P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-6098P beats the Xeon E5-1603 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1603 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1603 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6098P. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1603 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6098P. But they both have the same number of threads. The Core i3-6098P outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1603 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. For instance, the Xeon E5-1603 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.