Intel Xeon E5-2620 vs Intel Core i3-N300

Xeon E5-2620 vs Core i3-N300 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2620 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 slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2620 has more threads than the Core i3-N300. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2620 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N300. Despite this, the Core i3-N300 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2620 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 E5-2620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.