AMD Ryzen 3 1300X vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 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

$ 249.99
$ 60.25
$ 189.74 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2517 points
0.88% slightly better overall score
2495 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4619 points
33% slightly better gaming score
3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1924 points
2187 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1846 points
2116 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.09 points
61% significantly higher Blender score
29.84 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3018 points
3177 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1039 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
517 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3124 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2144 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points
150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
440 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
59% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
37% slightly higher turbo speed
2.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
23% slightly lower TDP
80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

624th of 1,089
628th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 3 1300X vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 performs better than the Ryzen 3 1300X. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 1300X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 1300X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 1300X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 1300X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Ryzen 3 1300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 1300X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 v2 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 1300X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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