Intel Xeon E3-1260L vs Intel Core i3-6100

Intel Xeon E3-1260L
Intel Socket 1155SERVER
2400 MHz / Cores: 4 / Apr 2011
Intel Xeon E3-1260L
Intel Core i3-6100
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3700 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2015
Intel Core i3-6100

Summary

Reasons to consider Intel Xeon E3-1260L

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-6100

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Intel Core i3-6100

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i3-6100

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

Intel Xeon E3-1260LIntel Core i3-6100
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
TXT
VT-x
VT-d
Hyper-Threading
AES-NI
SSE4.1
AVX2
TSX
CLMUL
FMA3

Architecture

Intel Xeon E3-1260LIntel Core i3-6100
ArchitectureIntel_SandyBridgevsIntel_Skylake
MarketServervsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR3, DDR4
CodenameSandy BridgevsSkylake
Release DateApr 2011vsSep 2015

Cores

Intel Xeon E3-1260LIntel Core i3-6100
Cores4vs2
Threads8vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsIntel HD 2000vsIntel HD 530

Cache

Intel Xeon E3-1260LIntel Core i3-6100
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache8192 KB (shared)vs4096 KB (shared)

Physical

Intel Xeon E3-1260LIntel Core i3-6100
SocketIntel Socket 1155vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Tempunknownvs65°C
PackageFC-LGA10vs
Die Size216mm²vs150mm²
Process32 nmvs14 nm

Performance

Intel Xeon E3-1260LIntel Core i3-6100
Cpu Frequency2400 MHzvs3700 MHz
Turbo Clock3300 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP45 Wvs51 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Xeon E3-1260L
    3300 points
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    4255 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Xeon E3-1260L
    11520 points
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    10297 points

Points - higher is better