AMD Ryzen 3 3100 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Ryzen 3 3100 vs Xeon E5-2650 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 3 3100. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 3100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3100. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Also, the Ryzen 3 3100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3100 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 v2 CPU because of its significantly 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.