AMD Ryzen 3 2300X vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 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

2681 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5046 points

19% slightly better gaming score

4224 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2093 points

2223 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2009 points

2134 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.81 points

61.49 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3074 points

3546 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

992 points

1027 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3341 points

3886 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1214 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1093 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

Identical

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

115% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

581st of 1,089

595th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 3 2300X vs Xeon E5-1620 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 2300X is faster than the Xeon E5-1620 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 3 2300X and Xeon E5-1620 v3 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 2300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 2300X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.