AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 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
$ 1184.10 significantly less expensive
$ 1304.10

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3954 points
5072 points
28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6365 points
25% slightly better gaming score
5077 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3235 points
5065 points
56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3106 points
5049 points
62% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.13 points
110.36 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5688 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4379 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1604 points
184% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
564 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5870 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4332 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1700 points
203% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
561 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
24
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed
2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
22% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
100% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

438th of 1,089
343rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

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 E5-2697 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 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 E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3300X has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3300X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3300X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v2 CPU because of its significantly 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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