Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4 vs Intel Core i3-N305

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Core i3 N-series 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

2777 points
2781 points
0.14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4309 points
4373 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2303 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
2279 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2209 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
2166 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.44 points
50% significantly higher Blender score
43.57 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4033 points
4208 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1125 points
1145 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.8 GHz
Identical
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
15 W
833% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
344% significantly more pcie lanes
9

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
300% significantly more memory channels
1

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

576th of 1,089
573rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Core i3 N-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-1620 v4 vs Core i3-N305 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1620 v4 is faster than the Core i3-N305. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-N305 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-N305 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-N305. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i3-N305 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.

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