Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Intel Core i3-1315U

Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Core i3-1315U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 is faster than the Core i3-1315U. Despite this, the Core i3-1315U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i3-1315U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1315U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1315U. Despite this, the Core i3-1315U 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 E5-2660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.