AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Price

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$ 84.99

$ 914.01 significantly less expensive

$ 999.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3909 points

4113 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5963 points

22% slightly better gaming score

4879 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3276 points

3854 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3146 points

3775 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.79 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

87.34 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5686 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5319 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1740 points

143% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

716 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5405 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3443 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1769 points

198% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

592 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

4 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

3.10 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

130% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

20 MiB

150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

440th of 1,089

426th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 5000 G-Series Desktop

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

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 5300G vs Xeon E5-2687W specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2687W is faster than the Ryzen 3 5300G. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5300G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 5300G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 5300G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2687W. Also, the Ryzen 3 5300G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Xeon E5-2687W 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 5300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.