AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 466.26 significantly less expensive

$ 546.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

9% slightly better overall score

3044 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

3% slightly better gaming score

5018 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

2460 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

2361 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

76.91 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3467 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

953 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

4098 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

1291 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.1 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

26% slightly lower TDP

82 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

534th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Xeon E3-1281 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1500X is faster than the Xeon E3-1281 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1281 v3 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 E3-1281 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Also, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1281 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.