Intel Xeon E5-2643 vs Intel Core i3-N305

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2971 points
6% slightly better overall score
2781 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4108 points
4373 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2620 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
2279 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2542 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score
2166 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.83 points
43.57 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2094 points
4208 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

566 points
1145 points
102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
83% significantly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
3.8 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
15 W
766% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
344% significantly more pcie lanes
9

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
300% significantly more memory channels
1

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB
2299% significantly more supported memory
16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

542nd of 1,089
573rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
Core i3 N-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2643 vs Core i3-N305 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-N305 is faster than the Xeon E5-2643. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2643 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-N305 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2643 has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N305.

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 E5-2643 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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