AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Price

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$ 417.00

$ 150.00

$ 267.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2653 points

3% slightly better overall score

2562 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4214 points

3% slightly better gaming score

4064 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2184 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

2114 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2097 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

2029 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.99 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

39.73 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.40 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

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

613th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1400 performs better than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1240 V2 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1400. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 1400 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. 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.