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i3 will have lower requirements, since it's just a bare window manager. XFCE is about as lightweight as a fully featured desktop environment can get, whereas with i3 you have to bring your own tools.
Incidentally, you can use i3 as the window manager portion of XFCE if you want.
Probably not. XFCE provides more than just a window manager; it's a whole desktop environment. That said, it would be interesting to see quantitatively what the difference in system resource usage actually is.