AMD Ryzen 3 4300GE vs Intel Xeon E5-1660

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1660

Price

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$ 768.00

$ 614.29

$ 153.71 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3752 points

2% slightly better overall score

3673 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5970 points

22% slightly better gaming score

4854 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3086 points

3294 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2962 points

3198 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.65 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

65.07 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

271% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

476th of 1,118

484th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 4000 G-Series Desktop

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2012 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 4300GE vs Xeon E5-1660 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 4300GE is faster than the Xeon E5-1660. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 4300GE has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4300GE. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 4300GE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660. Also, the Ryzen 3 4300GE has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 4300GE CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 CPU because of its significantly 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 4300GE has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.