Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Core i3-N305

Xeon E5-2640 vs Core i3-N305 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-N305 beats the Xeon E5-2640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i3-N305 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2640. Indeed, the Core i3-N305 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2640. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2640 has more threads than the Core i3-N305. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-N305. The info from our database shows that the Core i3-N305 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2640. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-N305.

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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.