Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Intel Core i3-N305

Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Core i3-N305 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-N305 is faster than the Xeon E5-2630 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-N305 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has 6 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has more threads than the Core i3-N305. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2630 v2 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 E5-2630 v2 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 E5-2630 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.