AMD Ryzen 3 2300X vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 8 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

4209 points

53% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5046 points

3% slightly better gaming score

4875 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2093 points

3976 points

89% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2009 points

3900 points

94% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.81 points

78.82 points

108% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

76% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

581st of 1,089

418th 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

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Ryzen 3 2300X vs Xeon E5-2689 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2689 is faster than the Ryzen 3 2300X. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 2300X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2689 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 2300X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 2300X. A Ryzen 3 2300X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Ryzen 3 2300X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.