Intel Xeon E5-2670 vs Intel Core i3-N305

Xeon E5-2670 vs Core i3-N305 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-N305 beats the Xeon E5-2670 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2670 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2670 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 has a significantly 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 E5-2670 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 E5-2670 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.