AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Price

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$ 92.43

$ 63.20

$ 29.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3488 points

5079 points

45% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5468 points

5% slightly better gaming score

5205 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2894 points

5069 points

75% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2778 points

5131 points

84% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.11 points

113.01 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4934 points

5241 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1418 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1004 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5096 points

5384 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1493 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1040 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

38% slightly lower TDP

90 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

484th of 1,089

341st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 3 3100. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3100 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 v3 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.