Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 vs Intel Core i3-N305

Xeon E5-1620 v3 vs Core i3-N305 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-N305 performs better than the Xeon E5-1620 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i3-N305 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1620 v3. Indeed, the Core i3-N305 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-1620 v3. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N305. Despite this, the Core i3-N305 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N305 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.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.