AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 79.99
$ 63.20
$ 16.79 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points
5079 points
121% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points
5205 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points
5069 points
189% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points
5131 points
204% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points
113.01 points
175% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2796 points
5241 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points
1004 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points
5384 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points
1040 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
Identical
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
38% slightly lower TDP
90 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,089
341st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 beats the Ryzen 3 1200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 1200 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 1200. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 1200. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 1200. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 1200 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 1200 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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