Intel Xeon E5-2630 vs Intel Core i3-N300

Xeon E5-2630 vs Core i3-N300 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-N300 beats the Xeon E5-2630 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i3-N300 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2630. Indeed, the Core i3-N300 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2630. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2630 has more threads than the Core i3-N300. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2630 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N300. Despite this, the Core i3-N300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N300 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2630 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 E5-2630 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.