Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 vs Intel Core i3-N300

Xeon E5-1620 v3 vs Core i3-N300 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-N300 is faster than the Xeon E5-1620 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 E5-1620 v3 that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N300. Despite this, the Core i3-N300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 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 E5-1620 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.