AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Xeon E5-2630 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v4 beats the Ryzen 5 3400G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3400G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2630 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3400G that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3400G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3400G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2630 v4 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 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.