Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Core i3-13100

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Core i3-13100 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 performs better than the Core i3-13100. Despite this, the Core i3-13100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Core i3-13100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.