Intel Xeon E5-2660 vs Intel Core i3-N305

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i3 N-series 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

3233 points

16% slightly better overall score

2781 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3840 points

4373 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3029 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

2279 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2968 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

2166 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.42 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

43.57 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2763 points

4208 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

457 points

1145 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

3.8 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

344% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

300% significantly more memory channels

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

525th of 1,118

592nd of 1,118

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

Xeon E5-2660 vs Core i3-N305 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 is faster than the Core i3-N305. Despite this, the Core i3-N305 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-2660 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-N305. Despite this, the Core i3-N305 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-N305 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.

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 E5-2660 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.