AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 120.00
$ 29.95 slightly less expensive
$ 149.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3954 points
23% slightly better overall score
3203 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6365 points
49% significantly better gaming score
4260 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3235 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
2869 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3106 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
2793 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.13 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
75.06 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5688 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3929 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1604 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
901 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5870 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4121 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1700 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
947 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
58% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
34% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
30% slightly lower TDP
85 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

438th of 1,089
510th 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 3300X vs Xeon E5-2620 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 3300X is faster than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3300X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3300X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3300X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3300X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3300X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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