AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 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

$ 417.00
$ 329.95
$ 87.05 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2653 points
10% slightly better overall score
2407 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4214 points
4431 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2184 points
18% slightly better multitasking score
1840 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2097 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score
1766 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.99 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
47.62 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3185 points
3379 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

955 points
1204 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3133 points
3325 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points
1198 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
3.5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
23% slightly lower TDP
80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

601st of 1,089
642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1400 is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 v5 CPU because of its slightly 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 5 1400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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