AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4

Price

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$ 87.91

$ 116.44 significantly less expensive

$ 204.35

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points

22% slightly better overall score

2777 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points

22% slightly better gaming score

4309 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

2303 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

2209 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

65.44 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3543 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3009 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

883 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3624 points

4033 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1137 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1125 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

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 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

115% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

495th of 1,089

576th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Xeon E5-1620 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3400G beats the Xeon E5-1620 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3400G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v4 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 5 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.