Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Core i3-6098P

Xeon W3580 vs Core i3-6098P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-6098P beats the Xeon W3580 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon W3580 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon W3580 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-6098P that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6098P. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-6098P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3580. The Core i3-6098P outputs less heat than Xeon W3580 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon W3580 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-6098P. The Xeon W3580 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.