AMD Ryzen 3 1300X vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2517 points

2678 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4619 points

5% slightly better gaming score

4361 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1924 points

2181 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1846 points

2092 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.09 points

50.58 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3018 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2287 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1039 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

663 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3124 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2338 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

672 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.50 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

624th of 1,089

597th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 1300X vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 is faster than the Ryzen 3 1300X. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 1300X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 1300X. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 1300X has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1300X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.