AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Xeon E5-1660

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Xeon E5-1660 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 3100 is faster than the Xeon E5-1660. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1660 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3100. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3100. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 3 3100 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.