AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Xeon X5680

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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
$ 27.98 slightly less expensive
$ 147.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3954 points
4570 points
15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6365 points
41% slightly better gaming score
4503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3235 points
4578 points
41% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3106 points
4568 points
47% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.13 points
54% significantly higher Blender score
56.43 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5688 points
120% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2584 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1604 points
199% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
535 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5870 points
137% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2476 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1700 points
219% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
532 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
14% slightly higher clock speed
3.33 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
19% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
100% significantly lower TDP
130 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
9652% significantly more L2 cache
0.02 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
1500% significantly more L3 cache
1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

438th of 1,089
383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2010 February

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 X5680 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 3300X is faster than the Xeon X5680. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon X5680 has significantly more cores with 6 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5680. Also, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3300X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3300X has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Ryzen 3 3300X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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