Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Intel Core i3-14100F

Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Core i3-14100F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 beats the Core i3-14100F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-14100F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-14100F. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has 14 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-14100F. It also has more threads than the Core i3-14100F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-14100F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Core i3-14100F 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 E5-2697 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.