Intel Xeon E5-2660 vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Xeon E5-2660 vs Core i3-1220P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 beats the Core i3-1220P in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-1220P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i3-1220P has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2660 that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2660 has more threads than the Core i3-1220P. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P. Despite this, the Core i3-1220P has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1220P outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2660 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 E5-2660 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.