Intel Xeon E5-1620 vs Intel Core i3-N300

Xeon E5-1620 vs Core i3-N300 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1620 performs better than the Core i3-N300. Despite this, the Core i3-N300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-N300 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1620 has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-N300. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.