AMD Ryzen 3 2300X vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 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

2740 points

2% slightly better overall score

2669 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5046 points

13% slightly better gaming score

4446 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2093 points

2147 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2009 points

2060 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.81 points

48.24 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3074 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2305 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

992 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

674 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3341 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2273 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1214 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

659 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

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.40 GHz

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

581st of 1,089

599th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 3 2300X vs Xeon E3-1245 V2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 2300X is faster than the Xeon E3-1245 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1245 V2 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E3-1245 V2 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 2300X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1245 V2. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 2300X has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1245 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 2300X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.