Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4 vs Intel Core i3-N300

Xeon E5-1620 v4 vs Core i3-N300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 v4 beats the Core i3-N300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-N300 in all gaming tests too.

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 v4 that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N300. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 v4 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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.