Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 vs Intel Core i3-13100

Xeon E5-2640 v4 vs Core i3-13100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-13100 beats the Xeon E5-2640 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i3-13100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-13100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Also, the Core i3-13100 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 E5-2640 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.