AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 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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$ 120.00

$ 63.20

$ 56.80 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3954 points

5079 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6365 points

22% slightly better gaming score

5205 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3235 points

5069 points

56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3106 points

5131 points

65% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.13 points

113.01 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5688 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5241 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1604 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1004 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5870 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5384 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1700 points

63% 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

3.8 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

26% 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

438th 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 3300X vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 beats the Ryzen 3 3300X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3300X 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 3300X has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3300X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 3300X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3300X 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.

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 3300X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.